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Great CLI programs

#1 Post by shnbwmn »

List some awesome CLI (command-line interface) programs you use/come across. Feel free to share any good scripts and resources as well :)

:arrow: Files and documents :arrow: Graphics :arrow: Multimedia :arrow: Utilities
  • RemoveDrive | Safe drive removal
  • ESD2WIM | Convert install.esd to .wim and vice versa
    --- Useful when installing Windows to a VHD (see here)
    --- For instance, the Win10 install.wim is actually a .esd under the hood, so this lets me create the proper .wim
    --- Apparently written by an M$ employee, so it's legit
  • WAIK Tools | M$ tools to deploy + configure Windows installations
    --- Included in OS, but can also be downloaded separately
:!: Programs with CLIs
  • Cygwin | Linux-like tools and environment on Windows
    --- Get rsync.exe via the configurator and use via a simple bat script
    --- eg,

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    \Portable\Cygwin\App\Runtime\Cygwin\bin\rsync.exe -rt --verbose /cygdrive/d/Folder1 /cygdrive/d/Folder2
  • GitPortable | Full access to Git
    --- Great for cloning Github repos without the very non-portable Github Desktop
    --- There's also SmartGit (portable) for those needing a good interface
  • NodeJS | Javascript development
    --- Easily download and manage npm packages
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* To download images from Google Art Project, use GigaFineArt (Chrome-based browsers only for now). This is also a reminder to myself to perhaps start a "Great web apps" thread :idea:

** Aye, I probably should've put this under Resources and Links. My bad :oops:
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Bulk Rename Command (BRC) - targeted at system administrators and power-users who need to perform file renaming tasks repetitively.

Clink - combines the native Windows shell cmd.exe with the powerful command line editing features of the GNU Readline library, providing rich completion, history, and line-editing capabilities.

GOW (GNU on Windows) - lightweight alternative to Cygwin. Includes about 130 open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries. Download the exe file and extract to use portably.

txtproc - a command line tool to do various text transformations.

wget - retrieves files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. Easily called from scripts. Also can be downloaded from here. wget Homepage.

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shnbwmn wrote:This is also a reminder to myself to perhaps start a "Great web apps" thread :idea:
We already have something like that: http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... =1&t=20858
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SYSTEM wrote:We already have something like that: http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... =1&t=20858
Ah that's good. I know some neat ones that are omitted.

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:arrow: wkhtmltopdf | convert web pages to beautifully-rendered PDFs with clickable links.
--- lots of parameters available, like margins, page size, greyscale, dpi, no. of copies, etc.
--- also converts to various image formats
--- use with URL or run HTML through it
--- extract installer; .exe in /bin

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#6 Post by shnbwmn »

Found a big list over at Github, inspired by the recent awesome lists going around.

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#7 Post by Midas »

shnbwmn wrote:Pandoc | Document/markup converter
shnbwmn wrote:Swiss File Knife | File management/processing
shnbwmn wrote:NConvert | Image converter
shnbwmn wrote:ImageMagick | Image processing awesome-sauce
shnbwmn wrote:Youtube-dl | Youtube downloader
shnbwmn wrote:FFmpeg | Video conversion/processing
shnbwmn wrote:AviSynth
shnbwmn wrote:RemoveDrive | Safe drive removal
shnbwmn wrote:GitPortable | Full access to Git
shnbwmn wrote:Aye, I probably should've put this under Resources and Links. My bad :oops:
  • Summative posts are very useful but, to avoid excessive redundancy, I'd recommend a thorough forum search or better -- now that TPFC search was made less forgiving -- googling the forums with an expression like the following:

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    "NAME" site:portablefreeware.com/forums
    [/size]
    Having said that, do you have any objection to a topic move? I'd ping webfork for it...

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#8 Post by Midas »

I'll add these, for the sake of completeness.
TP109 wrote:Clink
TP109 wrote:wget
shnbwmn wrote:wkhtmltopdf

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#9 Post by TP109 »

Midas wrote:but BRC has been specifically discussed at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 775#p37775
Some interesting CLI apps listed in that thread.

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#10 Post by shnbwmn »

Midas wrote: Summative posts are very useful but, to avoid excessive redundancy, I'd recommend a thorough forum search ...
Point taken.
Midas wrote:Having said that, do you have any objection to a topic move? I'd ping webfork for it...
Nope, that sounds good.

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