As found here: 10 Tools to Add Some Spice to Your UNIX Shell Scripts. This is no substitute for the great write-up and screenshots that the author put together. It’s a summary for myself.

The highlights (and how I really feel about them):

• notify-send (I never knew — better than tweat deck)
• tput (eh, maybe)
• setleds (i don’t have lock-key LEDs on my keyboard)
• zenity (has potential)
• kdialog (better than zenity? looks like VB functionality — good?)
• dialog (like kdialog, but uses (n)curses, not kde)
• logger (good to know!)
• setterm (practical jokes… and maybe useful for modal/portal stuff)
• smbclient (does that still work? Couldn’t get past authentication prompt)
• bash sockets (interesting… ICP? wasteful)