Entries tagged offline

Abook: Show birthdays for the next 30 days

Look up U.S. Zip codes from the command line offline

Convert an HTML webpage into a “clean” Markdown file

sdcv: an offline dictionary you can query from the command line

Display the conjugation of French and Italian verbs in the terminal

Pass the output of french-conjugator (verbiste’s cli) to less

Install and run Libretranslate on your computer

Add a dictionary to sdcv (Stardic’s cli)

Look up the definition of a word in a specific dictionary with sdcv

Pass sdcv’s output to less

Create a contingency table (a.k.a. cross tabulation) with Datamash

Set up msmtp to queue ‘sent emails’ when you are offline

Show decimal numbers with bc

Guidelines for password management for small and medium organisations

Count number of page(s) of one or multiple pdf files with pdfinfo, grep and awk

Remove pages from a pdf file from the command line with pdfseparate and pdfunite

Display a .csv file as a table in the terminal with Visidata

Convert a .ods file to a .csv file from the command line with libreoffice

Remove a specific range of files at once from the command line

Convert a PDF to 2 pages per sheet from 1 page per sheet from the command line with pdfxup

Resize an image on the command line with the utilty convert

Multiply field’s (column’s) entries and sum them up with awk

Sum values per group (of a text/data file) from the command line with Datamash

You don’t need new apps (or to search the web) to get things done

Convert files to .ogg from .flac from the command line with ffmpeg

Change the time zone used by date on GNU/Linux

Append multiple lines at the end of a file with cat

Check whether a package is availabile in the repository of a GNU/Linux distribution with apt list

Shortcuts to edit on the command line

Count the number of files grepped with wc

Merge pdf files freely without installing another programme with pdfunite

Convert a pdf to a text file from the command line with pdftotext

You don’t need a new app for your Zettelkasten

Show local time for a given time and date of a different time zone

Find out what takes up disk space on your computer with ncdu

Show paragraph count on pdf document compiled with Pandoc

You don’t need a new app to run a tagging system on your files: use the programme grep

Aspell: Spellcheck a file in the shell (terminal

Compare files, “accept/reject” (like in Word) and merge changes, with diff and patch

A guide to simple and stupid usage of computers for writers (anyone who writes really)

Start using Pandoc

Start using the command-line interface (cli)

Download mp3 files from a webpage with wget

Show the time of other time zones from the command line

Back up your computer (/home) on an external drive with the programme Back in Time

Convert an HTML webpage into an EPUB file with Pandoc

A roadmap to reclaiming my attention and time