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

Files and documents

• Pandoc | Document/markup converter
• Swiss File Knife | File management/processing

Graphics

• Dezoomify (Python) | Download large tiled images from websites (eg, art gallery sites*)
  --- You can use with WinPython
• NConvert | Image converter
• ImageMagick | Image processing awesome-sauce
  --- Fred's ImageMagick Scripts | Large collection of good, free IM scripts

Multimedia

• Youtube-dl | Youtube downloader
• SoX | Sound processing
• FFmpeg | Video conversion/processing
• AviSynth, AviSynth+, VapourSynth | Video processing/post-production
  --- AvsPMod | A sort-of interface for AviSynth

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

** Aye, I probably should've put this under Resources and Links. My bad

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.

shnbwmn wrote:This is also a reminder to myself to perhaps start a "Great web apps" thread

We already have something like that: http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... =1&t=20858

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.

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

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

shnbwmn wrote:Pandoc | Document/markup converter

• Don't want to be the party pooper, but a lot of them CLI tools have been posted previously. E.g., Pandoc has been mentioned at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 056#p67056 and following (also http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 617#p66617, http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 102#p56102, and http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 381#p63381)...

shnbwmn wrote:Swiss File Knife | File management/processing

• Ditto, chiefly at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... php?t=3043 ...

shnbwmn wrote:NConvert | Image converter

• For this one, check http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... p=341#p341 and http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 215#p68215.

shnbwmn wrote:ImageMagick | Image processing awesome-sauce

• ImageMagick was mentioned at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?t=21401 and http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?t=22151 ...

shnbwmn wrote:Youtube-dl | Youtube downloader

• Posts mentioning youtube-dl: http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 404#p73404, http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 674#p70674 and following, and http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 769#p74769.

shnbwmn wrote:FFmpeg | Video conversion/processing

• FFmpeg has mentions at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?t=16912, http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?t=20447, and http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 713#p38713 and following

shnbwmn wrote:AviSynth

• References to Avisynth are at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 181#p47181 and following, for instance.

shnbwmn wrote:RemoveDrive | Safe drive removal

• RemoveDrive has been discussed at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 6422#p6422, http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 647#p12647, and http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 052#p10052.

shnbwmn wrote:GitPortable | Full access to Git

• Not the same, but portable Git for Windows was mentioned at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 571#p66571

shnbwmn wrote:Aye, I probably should've put this under Resources and Links. My bad

• 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

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  Having said that, do you have any objection to a topic move? I'd ping webfork for it...

I'll add these, for the sake of completeness.

TP109 wrote:Bulk Rename Command (BRC)

• The GUI BRU has a dedicated topic at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... .php?t=775, but BRC has been specifically discussed at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 775#p37775.

TP109 wrote:Clink

• Clink has a dedicated topic at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?p=78021.

TP109 wrote:wget

• Wget for Windows also has a dedicated topic at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?t=20900.

shnbwmn wrote:wkhtmltopdf

• wkhtmltopdf was mentioned at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 056#p67056.

Midas wrote:but BRC has been specifically discussed at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 775#p37775

Some interesting CLI apps listed in that thread.

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.