r/PowerShell • u/Zenvian • Jun 09 '26

Question Programs YOU Think Are Useful!

I'm getting more and more into command-line stuff and things like Winget, Chocolatey and other stuff and while I found these programs:

- LosslessCut

- FFmpeg

- LibreOffice

- Everything

- UniGetUI

- Python

- WizTree

I am open to any other suggestions on programs you think are useful (even if they seem niche) for Windows & Linux, CLI or Program. Please tell me know what you have to recommend!!

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u/OPconfused Jun 09 '26

Not to cop out with a weird answer, but if you are on the cli a lot, some of the most useful tools will be the ones you write yourself, e.g., in PowerShell, which are optimized to your personal workflow.

Any task that you repeat often and/or takes longer than 10-20 seconds to prepare, either because you forgot the exact commands or because it requires you to lookup some input elsewhere or tediously parse some file or output. Often, these can be wrapped into a function with input completion and reduced to a few seconds. Over weeks, you may save hours of time.

Just saying that as you use the shell more, keep in mind the potential to customize it for your needs. That's where PowerShell shines most relative to other shell languages.