What CLI apps you use to do common tasks like editing (pdf, audio, video, image) files.

antihero@social.fossware.space to Linux@lemmy.ml – 97 points –

Here is my list:

  • pdf - pdftk
  • images - imagemagickutilities
  • audio/video - ffmpeg
  • documents - libreoffice --headless mode, also pandoc
  • download files - wget and curl, also ytdlp for youtube, reddit
  • cloud storage - rclone
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Rsync for moving files and backing up.

The ultimate it-just-works CLI tool.

Although I have never understood why it's called rsync, because you need to add --recursive to make it actually sync a file tree, which is what it does best.