Format and Unit Converters for the Terminal
Data conversion in the terminal covers documents, media, structured data and units of measurement, usually as one command that reads a file in one format and writes it out in another.
Writers turn Markdown into PDF or DOCX with pandoc, video and audio pass through ffmpeg, and structured data moves between CSV, JSON and YAML. Unit and currency calculators sit here as well. Most of these commands read standard input and write standard output, so they chain with the rest of a shell pipeline.
Below is a list of terminal tools that convert between formats and units.
bcal
Bits, bytes and address calculator.
Bits, bytes and address calculator.
benben
A fast and efficient command line audio player and audio converter.
A fast and efficient command line audio player and audio converter.
bttf
A CLI tool for datetime arithmetic, parsing, formatting and more.
A CLI tool for datetime arithmetic, parsing, formatting and more.
fend
An arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator.
An arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator.
ffmpeg
A tool to record, convert and stream audio and video in the terminal.
A tool to record, convert and stream audio and video in the terminal.
gowall
A CLI tool to convert an image to any color-scheme.
A CLI tool to convert an image to any color-scheme.
jc
A tool convert CLI output, files & strings to JSON/YAML.
A tool convert CLI output, files & strings to JSON/YAML.
mcat
Parse, convert & preview images, videos & markdown in your terminal.
Parse, convert & preview images, videos & markdown in your terminal.
miller
an all in one swiss army knife for data processing.
an all in one swiss army knife for data processing.
moji
Find, inspect and convert fonts from the terminal.
Find, inspect and convert fonts from the terminal.
numbat
high precision scientific calculator with full support for physical units.
high precision scientific calculator with full support for physical units.
pandoc
a universal markup converter.
a universal markup converter.
pastel
Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
qq
A jq inspired interoperable config format transcoder with interactive querying.
A jq inspired interoperable config format transcoder with interactive querying.
sizeof
A command-line tool to calculate the size of data structures
A command-line tool to calculate the size of data structures
sttr
A CLI/TUI tool to perform 30+ string transformations on text.
A CLI/TUI tool to perform 30+ string transformations on text.
termpicker
A color picker for the terminal.
A color picker for the terminal.
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