CLI recommendations

[RichieStacker]

For the past couple of days I've been playing with command-line based software on my Pi for a few reasons, namely the desire to learn - I'm no stranger to the command line, but woefully inexperienced - and my ill-educated feeling that even LXDE is an excess I could do without for most purposes.

So far I've mucked about with:

• Lynx
• mplayer (seems to freeze momentarily every now and then, but... *shoves that to one side to worry about later*)
• Vim (daunting, but I think finally bashing out a quick HTML page as a personal exercise has been a good first step... I hope )
• Midnight Commander

And I battled with installing yt and Quake 3 with eventual success. I've also grabbed rtorrent, not that I've used it yet. Beyond that, though, I'm a little lost as to what else to try. I'm guessing a mail client and an RSS reader, maybe an IM client too (not that I really use IM much), but otherwise I'm stumped.

Any suggestions on what I could try?

[Cloudcentric]

Arch Linux Arm is likely the least resource hungry Command Line Distro:

http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images/archlinuxarm

Though if you do try Arch update prior to use:

pacman -Syu


http://archlinuxpi.blogspot.co.uk/

[sdjf]

You could try your hand at editing images and creating banners from the command line with ImageMagick. There is a command line driven genealogy program called Lifelines that is in the Arch User Repository you could compile, might be available already compiled for Raspbian, I do not know.

Or try modifying the color scheme for lynx to suit your taste. I prefer light gray background for mine, still trying to get the text choices to look like I want for regular text vs. inactive links vs. active links.

[ghans]

Perhaps create a youtube downloader in bash ?
Only using wget, curl , sed and a mediaplayer ?
sed might turn out to be the most interesting part.

ghans

[ShiftPlusOne]

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/software/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li ... plications

[RichieStacker]

*crawls from the dreaded Pit of New Distro Experiences* Well, that was a bit of an adventure. I installed Arch on a spare SD and found myself spending the best part of the night downloading a lot of the software that was thrown in with Raspbian. I like it.

ImageMagick looks like fun, after looking up a tutorial on it. As for making a YouTube downloader, I'd have to wrap my head around sed first, I think. Like I said, woefully inexperienced here.

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/software/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li ... plications

Bookmarking those. Charm might particularly come in handy as I have a WordPress.com blog myself. Thanks.

[Cloudcentric]

Do you find Arch responsive in Command Line Mode ?

[sdjf]

I use sed all the time to do all sorts of stuff.

Get a copy of Eric Pemente's Sed One-Liners for quick list of examples. Best way to start is with simple stuff. There also is a mailing list at yahoo groups for sed help, probably also freenode chat channels too. That sed one-liners is a free file on the web, not a book.

[RichieStacker]

Do you find Arch responsive in Command Line Mode ?

Seems like it is.
One slight issue I've noticed, though, is that a few boot messages tend to crop up over the login prompt. It's not a problem, though, as I can still log in normally.

I use sed all the time to do all sorts of stuff.

Get a copy of Eric Pemente's Sed One-Liners for quick list of examples. Best way to start is with simple stuff. There also is a mailing list at yahoo groups for sed help, probably also freenode chat channels too. That sed one-liners is a free file on the web, not a book.

I'll have a looksee at it some time, thanks.

[ShiftPlusOne]

kmandla's blog is especially worth a closer look if you're interested in being productive X-less. He has abandoned it, but it still has a lot of great information on it. It certainly has served me well at least.

[joan]

The command line program I use most often is awk. If I was Amy Farrah Fowler (Big Bang) I'd say awk defecates sed.

[JustThisGuy]

For moving stuff amongst my close knit home net and beyond I tend to use scp. The OpenSSH suite has been very usefull to me.

I've been successful in setting up four of my email accounts in mutt. It seems a bit confusing but does work, although I haven't been successful in bringing up all four (or even two) email accounts under the same login. So I just cheat and login to 4 of my virtual consoles.

For videos I'm using omxplayer, a separated out bit of XBMC I believe, and fully gpu accelerated.

[Voltron43]

A nice introduction to the command line is writing your own bash script. A good one to start out with is manually checking for an updated file online by comparing the local and online MD5 hashes. After the bash script is complete, you can muck around with scheduling the script to run using cron, or adding it to your updating command through your .bash_aliases file.

[RichieStacker]

A nice introduction to the command line is writing your own bash script. A good one to start out with is manually checking for an updated file online by comparing the local and online MD5 hashes. After the bash script is complete, you can muck around with scheduling the script to run using cron, or adding it to your updating command through your .bash_aliases file.

This sounds like it might actually come in handy.

[morlock]

If you spent time learning Vim, then you may want to try cmus, a terminal music player. I use it exclusively now. Go away, bloated GUIs, all I need is to be able to browse my music folders architecture and select what I want to put in playlists, queues, and listen to my music

Have you ever played any roguelikes? If not, I would recommend trying crawl (in the terminal of course). Since you know Vim, once again this will be made easier.

In fact, vi and Vim have been very influential over the years in terms of UI design for programs that run in the terminal. Bash shortcuts, on the other hand, are more akin to what you will use if you learn some emacs.

Have fun!

[Chinasaur]

If you are logging in and out a lot, GNU screen or tmux, etc are worth learning. Assuming you are on bash, bash_completion is probably worth installing, and you can play with writing your own completions for less standard commands that don't have them; probably something like yt might be a candidate?