#1 2015-11-08 22:58:35

mrneilypops

The BL Scrot.Moe Guy

From: luxembourg

Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 577

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Cool but obscure linux tools

Heads up  to bunsenlabs community on this collection;

http://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools

Last edited by mrneilypops (2015-11-08 22:59:07)

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johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2015-09-09

Posts: 13,000

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Re: Cool but obscure linux tools

Thanks!

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gako

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Registered: 2015-10-02

Posts: 241

Re: Cool but obscure linux tools

Thanks mrneilypops haven't seen some of these.
Been a fan of calcurse lately.

Also, I didn't see on the list but sc is also pretty cool as a lightweight cli spreadsheet.

Snap

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Registered: 2015-10-02

Posts: 465

Re: Cool but obscure linux tools

Thanks for sharing!

martix

Kim Jong-un Stunt Double

Registered: 2016-02-19

Posts: 1,267

Re: Cool but obscure linux tools

This is such an awesome collection! Sites like that would be useful as Home on browsers for linux distros...

Now I have something obscure too: Terminalaquarium! 

Here is how to get it working:

wget http://www.robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/asciiquarium.tar.gz

Extract asciiquarium.tar.gz, copy or move asciiquarium in ~/bin and make it executable:

sudo chmod 755 ~/asciiquarium

Asciiquarium is a single perl script. It requires the Term::Animation module:

sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell

Answer the question and then in the prompt use:

install Term::Animation

Leave it via:

exit

If it's done, the aquarium starts from command line via

asciiquarium