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For me it's: Testdisk (and Photorec) Caddy Netstat Dig Aria2

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 month ago (30 children)

For me it's the other way around I wish there would be better CLI support for GUI apps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (19 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (13 children)
  1. Gimp to batch edit pictures in a script (I know about ImageMagick but still)
  2. Excel to change stuff in excel files quickly (I know about python modules but it's so complicated to use)
  3. Proprietary VPN software like Cisco AnyConnect, I want to automate the login when I boot, but they don't let me

Just from the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For Excel there is a PowerShell module called Import-Excel that I use all the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I see, nice, but I'm on Linux, so perhaps I need to run power shell there ^^

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

If you don't want to use PowerShell in Linux, there's also nushell, which is another (non-POSIX) shell that can process Excel files

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I forgot where I was posting. (I use both win and Linux pretty heavily.) I have pwsh, let me see if import-excel works on linux and report back.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Appears to work as well as it does on windows. I guess the only downside is learning powershell if you have no previous experience with it.

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