I'm a command line interface (cli) and textmode lover since I've changed to GNU/Linux. I've always running a shell console with GNU Screen to aggregating feeds (newsbeuter), emailing (mutt), browsing the web (w3m) or playing my music collection (cmus, xmms2) etc.. So, I've started a list here as a „work in progress“ especially for me to remember where to find all these nice apps. Most of them mainly shipped with Linux distributions and can be installed with their package management system.

Unfortunately there are some tools stopped developement for a long time that's why I put the next to it. Applications which I do prefer and recommend („must have“) are marked with the

• abcde a better cd encoder, not supported at the moment ,
• audioburn, a command-line audio cd burning application written in C
• bashburn, bashscript as frontend for misc burning tools
• burgner, generates ISO images and burn CDs
• burn-cd, python frontend for cdrkit & dvd+rw-tools
• burncdda
• burncenter, burncenter is a text-menu frontend for misc burning tools
• cdparanoia, cdda tool
• cdrdao, records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO)
• cdrdialog
• cdrkit, portable command-line CD/DVD recorder software
• dvd+rw-tools, burns CD/DVD-+rw/BlueRay
• jack, CD-rip-encode tool
• mp3c, mp3/ogg-creator
• mybashburn, bashscript as frontend for misc burning tools
• tcdr a menu-driven console frontend for CD recording
• xorriso, ISO 9660 rock ridge filesystem manipulator

• diakanos, ruby based console editor
• nano,
• ne, the nice editor
• vim, vi editor improved – nothing to say absolutely great

• autojump, changes quickly through directories
• bashcommander, two-panel file browser.
• cdargs, enhanced navigation inside the shell
• cfind, content finder
• clex file manager
• clist, is a ncurses based based directory browser and file manager.
• ftwin, a tool to find duplicate files according to their content on your file system.
• gnu midnight commander (mc)
• hachoir, misc tools (uses pythonlib) to explore binary files
• lfm, a simple ncurses based file manager written in Python.
• trash-cli, a freedesktop.org-compliant trashcan management tool
• vifm, is a ncurses based 2panel file manager with vi like keybindings.
• xclip, A command line interface to the X11 clipboard.

• aalib, an ascii-art library
• aview, ascii-art and, flc. flic viewer
• bb, great text demo, old but cool
• feh, image viewer
• fim framebuffer image viewer
• gphoto2, rather a complete photo suite than a cli-programm, but ther ist a gphoto-cli app in it.
• iimage, bash gallery script
• imagemagick, «Eierlegende Wollmilchsau» of graphic suites.
• jhead, exif tool, viewing an editing
• libcaca, ascii-art library
• libjpeg, library for handling jpeg images
• optipng, png optimizer
• pngcrush, png-image optimizer
• qiv, great image viewer

• adcd, a ncurses based CD-player
• audio_combine, command line utility to combine/split WAV/AIFF
• cdp, CD-plaer for the console, a mpg123 equivalent for CDs
• cmus, ncurses based music player
• dagger, a command line tagging tool
• djib, djib is a streaming server for mp3-, ogg-files written in python
• ecasound, cli multitrack recording
• herrie, minimalistic music player
• lastbash, console based last.fm player
• lastfmsubmitd, a last.fm daemon
• lien mp3 player, mp3- and CD-plyer
• mcdp, just another CD-player for linux
• moc, music on console
• moosic, a musical jukebox program.
• mp3blaster, mp3-player
• mp3info, mp3 info viewer am id tag editor
• mpd, music player daemon and clients
• mpg123, mp3 player
• mpgedit, direct mp3-editor cbr and vbr
• ogg123 ogg-player, belongs to vorbis-tools
• pyradio, stream radio tool (uses mplayer) in an early stage
• pytone, ncurses based music jukebox writtem in python
• squawk, voice chat program (for gamers)
• xmms2 music player daemon an successor of xmms1, seems to have a better design than mpd

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