Textprocessing

Collaborative Editing Tools. Only gobby is in the Debian repository¹⁾

Terminal based

Command	Function	Example	Remark
agrep			grep alternative
cut	Remove sections from each line of files	blkid /dev/sdb* \| cut -c -$(tput cols)\|Show only the part of a line which fits the screen width\| \|e3\|Very small text editor (10 kB). e3vi: Vi-like key bindings, e3pi: Pico-like key bindings\| \|glimpse\| \| \|grep alternative\| \|[[grep]]((also grep alternatives))\|Print lines matching a pattern\| \| \|[[https://jless.io\|jless]]\|Json viewer\| \|Not in the Debian repository\| \|jq\|Commandline JSON processor\| \| \|line\|Read one line\| \| \|look\|Display lines beginning with a given string\| \| \|mnf\|Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output\| \| \|od\|Dump files in octal and other formats\| \| \|only\| \| \|grep alternative \| \|pr\|Convert text files for printing\|<code bash>blkid /dev/sda* \| pr -m -t -w 100	Show only the first 100 characters of a line so they do not wrap on a screen which is 100 characters wide
pv	monitor the progress of data through a pipe	ls \| pv -l -i 0.1 -r -f 2>&1 >/dev/null \| other command
qrencode	Encode input data in a QR code, save as an image	qrencode --read-from=$HOME/text.txt \ --output=$HOME/text.png --8bit --type=PNG \ --dpi=72 --margin=4 --level=Q --size=3
rev	reverse lines characterwise	rev /var/log/aptitude \| less -S; rev <<< Hello
sort	Sort lines of text files
speedpad	Ncurses tool to test, train, and increase typing speed
tac	Concatenate and print files in reverse	tac auth.log* \| less -S
tee	Read from standard input and write to standard output and files	echo Hello3 \| tee hello3.txt Hello3 cat hello3.txt Hello3
touch	Change file timestamps, Create a files	Issue: touch: cannot touch Permission denied: Check the folder user, group and permissions settings
vim	Text processor	vi	Open a json file in vim and run :%!jq . to view and process json files in a readable format
xless	File browsing program for the X Window System

Graphical tools

diffuse	Graphical tool for merging and comparing text files
gobby	Infinote-based collaborative text editor
loook	Search text strings in ODF documents

PDF processing

PDF viewers

Name	Remark
mupdf
pdftotext	Transforms,on the command line, a pdf file to an txt file: pdftotext file.pdf file.txt. Install poppler-utils to get pdftotext and pdftohtml
qpdfview	qpdf: Tools for inspecting and transforming PDF files
xpdf

Convert PDF to ODT

Open the PDF document in Libreoffice Draw
Export the document as “HTML Document”
On the commandline convert the html document to a txt document: html2txt document.html > document.txt
Open document.txt in Libreoffice Writer and manually, according to the original,
- restore the formatting
- restore the layout
- restore what else is needed
Save the document as an ODT file

PDF tools

poppler-utils contains:

pdfdetach -- lists or extracts embedded files (attachments)
pdffonts -- font analyzer
pdfimages -- image extractor
pdfinfo -- document information
pdfseparate -- page extraction tool
pdfsig -- verifies digital signatures
pdftocairo -- PDF to PNG/JPEG/PDF/PS/EPS/SVG converter using Cairo
pdftohtml -- PDF to HTML converter
pdftoppm -- PDF to PPM/PNG/JPEG image converter
pdftops -- PDF to PostScript (PS) converter
pdftotext -- text extraction
pdfunite -- document merging tool

Text processing

Geany (ment for general use and especially sofware development)
Notepadqq (ment for general use and especially sofware development)

Count

Sort and count all words in a document

cat file.txt | sed 's/[,.]/ /g' | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -c | less

Outliners

Terminal

hnb	NCurses
note	Note manager (run cpan install YAML first to install yaml.pm (total disk usage ??. Guess: a few MB's)) Maybe handy: libfyaml-utils

GUI

Cherrytree
Dia	Diagrams, Charts, Graphs
Feathernotes	A file can get broken because of lack of diskspace. If so the file can maybe restored to working order by adding a sufficient number of </node> 's before </feathernotes> at the end of the file. Data can still be lost but at least the file is in working order again
Zim	Wiki style

Cherrytree

Set to a fixed with, monospace, font otherwize tabs do not align well.
- File > Preferences > Preferences > Fonts > Select a font like Monospace-Regular or Cousine. Font size 11

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