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Linux @lemmy.ml antihero @social.fossware.space 1 yr. ago

What CLI apps you use to do common tasks like editing (pdf, audio, video, image) files.

Here is my list:

pdf - pdftk
images - imagemagickutilities
audio/video - ffmpeg
documents - libreoffice --headless mode, also pandoc
download files - wget and curl, also ytdlp for youtube, reddit
cloud storage - rclone

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convert - convert between image formats as well as resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, etc. Almost nothing it can't do.
- IIRC, convert is just an alias to imagemagick.
  
  you recalled correctly.
  
  TIL. Thank you kind strangers.

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