Terminal tricks

Some example programs to look into:

• networking: nmcli, nmtui
• brightness control: acpilight
• battery status: upower, acpi, tlp
• audio configuration: alsamixer, pactl
• playing audio: mpd + various clients, cmus, moc

~ grg2014

You can go really far if and use only one tool for that: curl.

• check weather — curl wttr.in
• check (crypto)currency exchange rate — curl rate.sx/btc
• convert text ito qrcode — curl qrenco.de/YOUR-TEXT-HERE
• cheat sheet for any command — curl cheat.sh/tar (or other command)
• answer on any question about programming languages — curl cheat.sh/python/read+file (or other language/query)

It is not curl but still cool and funny:

• nc towel.blinkenlights.nl 23 — watch starwars in terminal
• telnet mapscii.me — show a zoomable world map

And curl again:

you can share your text with your mates/colleagues:

• curl ix.io
• curl sprunge.us
• curl ptpb.pw
• curl 0x0.st
• curl clbin.com

And many many other things (I’ve just started to name them). With this approach you can go really far, and as I said, you don’t even need to install anything besides curl (or wget/httpie/fetch) locally for that.

~ igor_chubin