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Here are [foo] commands that I like quite a bit. When my memory fails me or if I use a machine that is low tech. So let's fire up the terminal and go!


apropos


Sooooo french. apropos helps you outpout a list of installed programs by searching the argument of the command in all program names and manual pages. For example, when I do not remember what video editor and or player are installed, I just type

>apropos video

and the output will be

>amdgpu (4) - AMD RADEON GPU video driver

>ati (4) - ATI video driver

>dvdunauthor (1) - Decodes DVD-Video file structure

>dvgrab (1) - Capture DV or MPEG-2 Transport Stream (HDV) video and audio data from FireWire

>fbdev (4) - video driver for framebuffer device

>ffmpeg (1) - ffmpeg video converter

>ffmpeg-all (1) - ffmpeg video converter

>ffmpeg-scaler (1) - FFmpeg video scaling and pixel format converter

>io.elementary.photos-video-thumbnailer (1) - writes video thumbnail to stdout

>kdenlive (1) - An open source non-linear video editor.

>melt (1) - author, play, and encode multitrack audio/video compositions

>modesetting (4) - video driver for framebuffer device

>mpeg2desc (1) - multiplex audio/video streams

>nouveau (4) - NVIDIA video driver

>olive-editor (1) - video editor

>[...]


So now olive and kdenlive ring a bell. What is melt? never heard of it. Cool, let's try melt then. Sometimes the list is a bit long, but reading the manual page helps you broaden or narrow the search by using wildcards or performing exact search.



surf


I just really like this very light web-browser. I can fire it anytime while in the CLI. Not an only text, but a full web browser stripped to the bare minimum. If you do not have it yet, type:

> sudo apt install surf

(that's for a debian environment).

And then start it by typing surf followed by the URL you want:

> surf duckduckgo.com


There you are, a small minimalistic web browsing window to explore the web. Very good when I need a graphical interface to surf the web on a very low spec machine, on which even Falkon or Dillo would take too long to open.



figlet


Well, this one is quite handy now that we all want to play around from the terminal to output some nice titles for our Gemini capsules.


One 'sudo apt install figlet' later and you are ready to figlet anytext into some ascii retro titles.


For example:

> figlet Orbit

will output this:

 / _ \ _ __| |__ (_) |_
| | | | '__| '_ \| | __|
| |_| | |  | |_) | | |_
 \___/|_|  |_.__/|_|\__|

Not kidding, but after this you can also install and try the toilet command.



cowsay


You want to leave the farmland and rocket to space. Why leave Marguerite behind. Take the cow with you, it can fit somehow in your capsule.

cowsay is one of this tiny command, just here to make you smile. And it can say anything you like.

> cowsay Dude did u really think we would fall for software as a service

will output:

 _______________________________________
/ Dude did u really think we would fall \
\ for software as a service             /
 ---------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

fortune


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