tar
CLICreate, list, and extract .tar / .tar.gz archives. Preinstalled on macOS and Linux.
Extract a .tgz into a directoryVerified macOS · Linux
mkdir -p out && tar -xzf archive.tgz -C out+1 more matching recipefile-archive4 recipes · 4 verified
zip / unzip
CLICreate and extract .zip archives. Preinstalled on macOS and most Linux images.
Extract a .zip into a directory, overwriting silentlyVerified macOS · Linux
unzip -qo archive.zip -d outfile-archive3 recipes · 3 verified
poppler (pdftotext / pdftoppm)
CLIPDF text extraction, page info, and PDF → PNG rendering. The reliable way to read PDFs from a shell.
Extract text from a PDF to stdout (keep layout)Verified macOS · Linux
pdftotext -layout input.pdf -+2 more matching recipesconversion6 recipes · 6 verified
ffmpeg
CLIComplete, cross-platform solution for recording, converting, and streaming audio/video.
Extract audio from video~97% est.
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vn -acodec mp3 -ab 192k audio.mp3media5 recipes
jq
CLILightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
Extract a field from a JSON fileVerified macOS · Linux
jq -r '.name' package.jsontext-processing7 recipes · 6 verified
yt-dlp
CLIDownload videos and audio from YouTube and 1000+ other sites.
Extract audio as MP3~96% est.
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 URLmedia3 recipes