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* Generate presentations using [[LaTeX]] -- latex-beamer
* Modify the [[rpath]] of a binary -- chrpath
* Generate ASCII art - cadubi
* Record desktop session to animated GIF - byzanz
* Render anti-aliased text from plaintext source - gozer
* Chop and merge MPEG2 streams - gopchop
* Linux source tree manager - ketchup
* PNG metainfo dumper - pngcheck, pngmeta
* JPEG metainfo dumper - jpeginfo
* Patch management tool - quilt
* Hex editor - hexedit, hexeditor (ncurses-hexedit)
* GNOME image thumbnailer - gthumb
* GNOME image viewer - gimv (gimageview)
* GNOME [[Unicode]] charset browser - gucharmap
* Create graphics from relationship sets - graphviz
* Manipulate graphic files - convert (imagemagick)
* Collect stdin then open and write to stdout - sponge (moreutils)
* Edit a directory in vi - vidir (moreutils)
* Insert vi into a pipeline - vipe (moreutils)
* Write stdin to multiple files - tee (coreutils)
* Write stdin to multiple pipes - pee (moreutils)
* Secure file deletion - wipe
* Run a binary repeatedly every n seconds - watch
* Run a process as a daemon - daemon
* More reasonable GNU Info page browser - pinfo
* Python source checker - pychecker
* HTML/XHTML checker - tidy
* [[LaTeX]] checker - lacheck
* XSLT processor - xsltproc, xalan
* Command-line XML/[[XSLT]] manipulations - [[xmlstarlet]] (xml on [[FreeBSD]])
* Extract text from MS Word - antiword
* Extract text from HTML - html2text
* Detect MIME type / extract metainfo - extract
* Detect filetype based on magic number - file
* Read EDID via VBE/DDC - get-edid | parse-edid (read-edid)
* POSIX time(1) - time (time package, not shell builtin)
* Query DNS servers - dig (dnsutils)
* Time HTTP header retrieval - httping
* Display bandwidth usage by hostpairs - iftop
* General X image viewer - xli
* Display overal system statistics - saidar
* Carve up packet dump files - tcpxtract
* Create a UDF filesystem - mkudffs (udftools)
* Set up packet writing (block access of RW [[Optical media|optical media]]) - pktsetup (udftools)
* Create a VideoCD image - mkvcdfs (vcdtools)
* Speech synthesis - festival
* x86, PPC, SPARC, ARM emulation - qemu
* Processor VT capability-aware qemu - kvm
* Record / playback a TTY - ttyrec / ttyplay (ttyrec)
* Break a [[Unicode]] file into character ranges - unidesc
* Print [[Unicode]] character data for all characters in a file - uniname (unidesc)
* Look up [[Unicode]] characters - utf8lookup (unidesc)