11 Cool Command Line Programs You Need to See

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0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Tool 1
1:41 - Very Good Thing
3:34 - Tool 2
4:30 - Tool 3
6:16 - Tool 4
7:11 - Tool 5
7:50 - Tool 6
8:44 - Tool 7
9:22 - Tool 8
11:03 - Tool 9
11:44 - Tool 10
12:12 - Tool 11

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[ThioJoe]

🧐Updates:
• PDFCPU now supports the "decrypt" command (and some others) for PDF 2.0 files as of version v0.8.0, allowing you to remove edit protection for them
📝 Some tips based on questions I've seen a couple times:

[astropgn]

"FFMPEG: The most widely used multimedia transcoder on at least two planets" - The team behind ffmpeg added this into a presentation because Nasa uses it in some of their rovers on Mars to transcode their videos before sending back to Earth.

[edems]

0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Cheat
3:34 - YT-DLP ( video downloader )
4:30 - ImageMagick ( format converter )
6:16 - FFmpeg ( edit / convert mp4 )
7:11 - Err.exe ( cheatsheet for errors )
7:50 - ExifTool ( metadata edit )
8:44 - Pandoc ( convert )
9:22 - PDFCPU ( edit secured pdf )
11:03 - XPDF Tools ( pdf convert )
11:44 - Tokei ( source code stats )
12:12 - Hyperfine ( speed of commands )

[Didz]

If you want GUI based tools or are scared of the command line here are some:
Open Video Downloader is a front-end for yt-dlp and FFmpeg
Handbrake is a front-end for FFmpeg
IrfanView can edit images and shows all EXIF information and JPEG quality (press I)
Mp3Tag can edit metadata of audio files but it can also edit video containers like MP4 and MKV including inserting images

There are many more out there, tell us other good tools. 😀

Bit of history... outdated now but I remember using RazorLame which was a front-end for LAME for encoding MP3s back in 2003 in the Windows XP days. Now LAME lives on within FFmpeg.

[NoramiYuuki]

honestly, my favorite is yt dlp. it's probably one of the most used tools out of this list by your average day to day person, and it's also the most useful one to me, somebody who constantly does editing, clipping, archiving etc..

thanks again for yet another fantastic video!

[iPandora]

a cli tool I've found to be useful is tldr. it takes the man/info commands from Mac/Linux, and and lists the most common uses for the command :)

[justicelegends]

This video is a gem. I wanna jump into every single program you've compiled here right now.

[content_ai_]

@ThioJoe you forgot unsilence, it removes the silent parts of videos and audio, its super nice

[ego-lay_atman-bay]

I love ffmpeg, I use it all the time to split, merge, and compress videos. It's just makes me feel I have more control over the output than the gui video editors for mobile.

[TheWilro]

I love your Videos. Unbelievably useful!
Definitely saw some tools and features here that I was not aware of yet.
Much appreciated mate.

[gavincstewart]

One of your best videos yet, thank you!!

[anamoyeee]

Tokei is definitely my favourite, seeing how many files and lines of code i have written for a certain project is just so nice to have

[ckingpro]

Extracting PDF images using either of the two tools you mentioned is a lot better than Windows + Shift + S or Cmd + Shift + S and selecting the region. Thanks for that!

[LeonderGrunder]

Winget is also crazy cool, because it is not restricted by schools.

[dani]

10:10 Paper tiger" is a calque of the Chinese phrase zhǐlǎohǔ The term refers to something or someone that claims or appears to be powerful or threatening but is not ...

[NiyaKouya]

May not quite fit the criteria you set for those tools you picked, but to add another one for people who prefer the console: winget
It's included in Win 10 and 11 and lets you install and update a quite big variety of programs without having to hunt for their individual installation packages. Might not (yet) be as mighty as the linux equivalents (apt, dnf & co), but it's still a neat helper.

[pyp]

Well this is definitely going to be handy, since I spend most of the time on the terminal. I would usually write scripts to automate stuff, just to save time and not worry about forgetting a command.

[rochellerochelle]

This, good sir, earned both a like and a subscription.

[moregainfor]

This video has just made me love cmd. Thanks a lot, this has been very helpful

[Rakusan]

I question the use case of hyperfine since I tend to use the Powershell commandlet 'Measure-Command'