Recent Posts Tagged With 'cli'

• Uncompress files using CLI

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 03:52 in hacks, cli

  I usually uncompress all kinds of packaged files from the command line. Unfortunately, I rarely remember which command line tool I should use for some specific packaging format. It is even more difficult to remember all the options needed for the app...

• Wordgrinder -- Word Processor for the Linux Console

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 12:26 in applications, cli

  One of the few things I miss from the years when I used MS-DOS is WordPerfect 5.1. It was a perfect application for writing and few WYSIWYG word processors if any have been as userfriendly as WP was. For the last seven or eight years I've been consta...

• Rip CDs on the command line: ripit

  Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 12:40 in cli, text mode

  I try to use simple command line tools for many tasks that most readers probably accomplish with the default tools provided by GNOME or KDE. Thus I like to listen to the ogg vorbis music files using ogg123 and I rip my CDs using ripit. Ripit is a com...

• dc - A Text Mode Calculator

  Posted on Sunday July 19th, 2009 at 10:10 in dc, cli

  A few weeks ago, I wrote about bc. It can be used as a simple arbitrary precision calculator text mode and for executing mathematical programs written in bc programming language.Today I noticed that I have yet another simple text mode calculator inst...

• Text Mode Linux Applications

  Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 03:00 in cli, text mode

  During the first year of blogging for Lightweight Linux, I have written about many useful text mode applications. Some of them might be considered obsolete by modern standards, but they might well be enough to satisfy the needs of a command line junk...

• bc is a command line calculator

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 07:11 in cli

  Very often I need a simple command line calculator to do some simple math for my accounting or economics classes. Usually I don't need anything more complicated than the simple arbitrary precision calculator bc. The bc is very intuitive to use, afte...

• twyt for CLI tweets

  Posted on Sunday June 21st, 2009 at 04:50 in twitter, cli

  For a couple of days, I thought I would write some more scripts for using Twitter on command line. After some googling, I discovered there was already a command line twitter client available that would completely satisfy my needs. Twyt is available a...

• Twitter updates from Linux CLI

  Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 01:48 in twitter, cli

  During the last week, I've learned to use Twitter. Of course, there is not a lot to learn as Twitter is a really simple system. Consequently, it can easily be updated from the Linux command line without using any dedicated application or a bloated we...

• e3 is an editor with many faces

  Posted on Tuesday May 5th, 2009 at 13:47 in cli

  A few days ago, I learned about a lighweight console editor I had never used before. E3 is a very small and lightweight editor that can emulate the most important keyboard shortcuts used by VI, Emacs, Pico, Nedit and even Wordstar. I think I haven't ...

• wtf is wtf?

  Posted on Tuesday February 10th, 2009 at 16:02 in cli

  I happened to install last week - quite accidentally - a cool little command line tool I want to share with you today. As I installed the package bsdgames in my antiX box I got quite a few text mode games installed. In addition to the games, wtf was ...

• Adventure in text mode

  Posted on Saturday February 7th, 2009 at 14:08 in Games, cli

  My first computer was a Commodore 64, that was one of the most popular home computers in the 1980's. I used the computer mostly for games and learning to code, first in BASIC and later in 6510 assembler. As the screen resolution for multicolored grap...

• Nethack is the game for geeks

  Posted on Tuesday February 3rd, 2009 at 16:04 in Games, cli

  Around 15 years ago I played for the first time Nethack. I should have been working on my MA thesis in medieval ecclesiastical history but I probably spent a lot more time online: reading the newsgroups, chatting in the IRC or in the university's int...

• Alpine is a great text mode email application

  Posted on Saturday January 31st, 2009 at 08:02 in applications, cli

  I have used pine as my main email application since 1993 and I'm not even considering to replace pine with a more modern email application as long as pine is available in the Unix system where I read my email. When I need to read email that has been ...

• Manage your contacts with abook

  Posted on Tuesday January 27th, 2009 at 21:48 in applications, cli

  I'm constantly looking for applications that can comfortably be used even with an old computer. Some days ago, I posted an article about lightweight personal organizer OSMO. Now I have found something even more lightweight!My new address book manager...

• Manage your files with mc (Midnight Commander)

  Posted on Monday January 26th, 2009 at 13:15 in applications, cli

  Once upon a time, there was a operating system called MS-DOS. It was a pretty limited system and awkard to use, but at the same time, it was a lot more useful than the graphical systems built on the DOS. To help the users, many companies created pro...

• Burn CDs and DVDs with cdw

  Posted on Saturday January 24th, 2009 at 11:53 in applications, cli

  There are several useful applications available for burning CDs and DVDs on a Linux system. The geekiest users are probably happy with command line tools while most users are happy with k3b or gnomebaker.Cdw is a ncurses based alternative to more fa...

• Documentation for CLI Newbies

  Posted on Friday October 3rd, 2008 at 07:08 in documentation, cli

• Remind is a lightweight tool for reminders

  Posted on Sunday September 21st, 2008 at 01:45 in tools, cli

• HOWTO Read rtf Files in Linux Console

  Posted on Thursday September 11th, 2008 at 11:57 in tips, cli

• HOWTO Read PDF Files in Console

  Posted on Wednesday September 10th, 2008 at 00:15 in howto, cli

• HOWTO Read .doc Files in Console

  Posted on Tuesday September 9th, 2008 at 09:24 in cli

• Htop Is Better Than Top

  Posted on Monday September 8th, 2008 at 09:48 in cli

• Elsewhere: 18 CLI Audio Tools

  Posted on Tuesday August 12th, 2008 at 00:00 in cli, from internet

• CLI: Download ISO images with wget

  Posted on Saturday August 9th, 2008 at 01:19 in cli, wget

• Lightest WWW Browsers for Linux

  Posted on Sunday August 3rd, 2008 at 14:11 in browsers, cli

• Less is better than more in Linux

  Posted on Monday June 30th, 2008 at 02:58 in cli