On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 22:43:37 +0200 "Christoph K." <christ...@kobenetz.de> wrote:
> I'd like to "automate" a couple of tasks that I (until now) do on the > command line manually. Examples include splitting of video files using > ffmpeg, run backups with specific parameters, display checksums(md5), > etc. > > I'm tired of typing the same long commands that I often need to look > up in my wiki and just replace one or two parameters, usually just > the file names. Is there any reason it has to be a GUI tool? Much of what you want is already in BASH. To retrieve past command lines ready for editing and re-execution, CTL-R. To retrieve past command lines and edit them on the fly, FC. http://charlescurley.com/blog/posts/2019/Aug/02/bash-line-editing/ -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/