tor-ctrl - Tor control port command line tool

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I was looking tor command line tools and found carml.
It is very nice the monitor command, the log messages are easy to read not raw, even though you can still see raw with events command.
Carml is built upon txtorcon, both by Meejah.

Unfortunately carml does not have a debian package, but txtorcon the library has, so possible that in the feature he provides pushes it to debian.org.

interesting commands:

  • monitor → beautify events
  • onion → create onion services
  • newid → newnym
  • cmd → any controller command

Thoughts:

Much better than tor-ctrl of course in terms of user friendliness, interpreting events, has a whole library.
Not available on deb.debian.org so one would need to maintain the package. Has some dependencies not available on debian repos such as ansicolors.

It is a great tool and I hope it becomes available on debian soon, but it it on version 21.1.0, so maybe there is something blocking.

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