I know there are some terminal commands with respect to LaTeX (Suppose TeX Live has been installed).
texdockpsewhichtexhashmktexlsrlatexdef
And are there any other commands that you think useful? If any, please give your recommendations.
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Most of these are part of a standard TeXlive distribution, but a few aren't.
The obvious ones: latex, pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex.
The only slightly less obvious ones: bibtex, biber, makeindex, makeglossaries, make4ht, htlatex, tex4ebook, xindy
Build automation: latexmk, arara, rubber
Quick log parsing: rubber-info
Other bibliography tools: bibtool, citeproc/citeproc-lua, bbl2bib.pl
Forward and reverse searching: synctex
Various converters: dvips, xdvipdfmx, epstopdf, ps2pdf (ghostscript), pandoc, pdftocairo (poppler), convert (imagemagick), inkscape
Tools for working with PDFs: pdfjam, pdfcrop, qpdf, mutool (mupdf), pdffonts/pdfinfo (poppler), ghostscript
Searching for fonts: fc-list (fontconfig), albatross (thanks to Skillmon)
Other tools: latexdiff, texcount
Path searching: kpsepath, kpsewhich, kpsewhere
Package management: tlmgr
I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch.
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@Skillmon Thanks for pointing out albatross. I wish I had discovered it sooner! But what flavor is it? – frabjous Oct 06 '22 at 20:04
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@frabjous It's a bird, innit? It's a bloody sea bird... it's not any bloody flavour. Albatross! – Skillmon Oct 06 '22 at 20:09
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@Teepeemm Good point. I left it off because the question says "W.R.T. LaTeX", but one can never have too many command line programs to try. – frabjous Oct 07 '22 at 01:59
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kpsewhere(likekpsewhichbut lists every found file, not only the one that will end up being used) – Skillmon Oct 06 '22 at 12:08l3build(for package building, testing, and installation automation) – Skillmon Oct 06 '22 at 12:08latexmkfor simplified compilation – musarithmia Oct 06 '22 at 12:17