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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
A way to run Linux commandline software from a specialized console, similar to how a command prompt runs DOS or PowerShell.
It works well, but it’s imperfect.
Sometimes mis-named Bash on Ubuntu on Windows or Bash on Windows
See also:
XLaunch to run GUI Linux software.
Software >
A really straightforward and damned-fast file synchronization tool.
It might have been great, but it was abandoned. Reproducibly nonfunctional.
Abandoned
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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
What Linux did in the 90s, Microsoft is doing in the 2020s.
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https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iconsext.html
EXE/DLL/OCX/CPL icon grabber/extractor
See also that author’s DotNetResourcesExtract for .NET stuff.
https://launchpad.net/mudpyl/
https://pypi.org/project/mudpyl/
I couldn’t get it working.
Abandoned: The code depository was last updated 2008-10-31
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(on Wikipedia)
https://tintin.mudhalla.net/
A client renown for actually being developed.
Oh my god it’s like I’m the first person to look at the website or use the program.
Can interact with the shell
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https://github.com/philbot9/youtube-comment-scraper/
Downloads the comments on YouTube videos.
Used to be available at ytcomments.klostermann.ca but that IP got banned because of overuse.
See my youtube-comment-scraper.sh script for how I use it.
Software >
https://github.com/arc298/instagram-scraper
A Python program to download all media from an Instagram account.
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was http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/
https://youtube-dl.org/
A commandline downloader for YouTube videos and playlists (and not comments). Also works for a surprising number of other websites.
It has no competition, so I guess I can say that it’ll have to do, but it really is good.
See also:
youtube-comment-scraper for comments.
