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by InfamousRece 1195 days ago
moreutils have its own parallel utility that I actually prefer to Gnu parallel.
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No problems, they almost work the same I think. Oh, another bunch of small tools to help yourself:

    - entr. It runs a command on file/directory changes.
    - spt. Simple pomodoro technique. A good timer to help yourself to work and take rests.
    - herbe. It works great as a notifier for spt. Add "play" from sox to write a script to both
   notify and play a sound in parallel.
    - sox/ffmpeg/imagemagick. Audio, video and image production and conversion on the CLI. A must have.
    - catdoc/antiword/odt2txt/wordgrinder+sc-im+gnuplot. Word/Excel/Libreoffice files reading and editing on the terminal. Gnuplot with help with sc-im. This can be a beast over SSH. With Gnuplot compiled with sixel support (and XTerm) you can do magic.
- iomenu

     - cat bookmarks.txt | iomenu | xargs firefox. Pick from a list of items (one per line) and choose. I think it has fuzzy-finding matches.

I have several more. Simple battery meter (sbm), grabc to grab a color from the screen, pointtools+catpoint to do "presentations" over a terminal, nncp-go+yggdrasil for ad-hoc networking and secure encrypted backups between devices...
There's also paexec