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https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
A text-editing programming language.
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Software > Linux tools >
Programming >
(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
A text-editing programming language.
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https://github.com/astrand/xclip
A commandline interface to X Windows’ clipboard functionality.
I don’t really use this.. it’s just hanging around.
Abandoned – As of 2021-09-20 last updated 2016-09-13
See also:
TODO – add my notes, and scripts
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Chocolatey: imagemagick
https://imagemagick.org/script/index.php
ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images.
It’s pretty fucking magickal.
TODO – I didn’t note the actual commands I use
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https://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
CheckInstall will run make install (or whatever you tell it to run) and keep track of every file modified by this installation.
When it is done, CheckInstall will create a package and install it as a standard package. It will leave you a copy of the installed package in the source directory for your re-use.
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https://mplayerhq.hu/
Pretty much the de-facto video player on Linux, as it comes with most Linux distributions. It can play both audio and video, and works at the commandline.
Although it’s great, it’s a last resort compared to other audio playing software.
Although it can play without one, the common frontends are:
Software >
This is just a tags placeholder for this concept.
diff is the commandline thing; important for patch.
-u switch. (advised by Working on Free Software)Software >
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https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch/
Applies changes to one or more original files based on information originally provided by the diff program. Let just the smaller changes between versions be distributed without needing to send the whole new version of a file.
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https://wiki.debian.org/Apt
A package manager, notably used by Debian.
This refers mainly to apt-get and apt-cache although there is the separate-but-compatible project that is just apt.
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http://lftp.yar.ru/
An FTP-like program which can also Mirror.
I use this to synchronize files over SFTP (SSH).