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Which CLI app/utility you wish there was a GUI for? (lemdro.id)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Gimp to batch edit pictures in a script (I know about ImageMagick but still)
Excel to change stuff in excel files quickly (I know about python modules but it's so complicated to use)
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] 5 points 4 months ago

For anyconnect: openconnect works perfectly, either as standalone script or via networkmangler.

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

Check out openconnect to connect to anyconnect VPNs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I did, doesn't work with our company setup with 2FA.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What kind of prompt does your company 2FA provide? Using openconnect with networkmangler, I get a pop up to input my pin+totp. I haven't done the script way in the last few years, but the connection script is plain shell and I was able to handle the 2FA from there too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's some time ago I dug deeper on what was happening, but openconnect was getting a different response from the server than it expected and it just failed because of that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gimp to batch edit pictures in a script (I know about ImageMagick but still)

It seems to exist: https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/

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

There are many things you can do in the GIMP gui that can't be done programmatically :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This is one reason I love FreeCAD. Everything done in the GUI is just a python call

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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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