Ryan Tomayko

goosh.org - the unofficial google shell —

This is pretty rad. You can do web searches and whatnot without leaving a command line style interface but you can also do stuff like read news feeds. Check it:

I’d love to settle into this kind of workflow but these shell interfaces always have one thing or another wrong with them. Maybe this is The One. We’ll see.

A Well-Tempered Pipeline —

A lost art, indeed.

cowsay(1) —

Best. Program. Ever.

BashPitfalls —

Most of these are relevant to POSIX sh(1). This one gets me every time: echo <<EOF :)

Vimperator —

Make Firefox like Vim. No, like, insanely like Vim. Not just h,j,k,l mappings but everything. Looks like it’s been around for awhile. I’m not sure how I missed it.

pv(1) - Pipe Viewer —

pv can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for? —

Dennis Ritchie: “There was a facility that would execute a bunch of commands stored in a file; it was called runcom for ‘run commands’, and the file began to be called ‘a runcom’. rc in Unix is a fossil from that usage.”

DTerm - A command line anywhere and everywhere —

Payware GUI shell thingy for MacOS. This is not a QuickSilver/Launchbar clone. It’s more like a magical bash interpreter that knows things about what’s happening in various Mac GUI applications (like Finder, Safari, etc).

I need a woman who is willing to raise a child with me in the method of Unix —

“Other than the fact our child will be bright, text-based and sarcastic, we will otherwise be a normal family.”

Hotwire graphical terminal —

Looks like they’re bringing the basic capabilities of readline up to the GUI level. Definitely interesting.

Fear and loathing at the command line —

“To average users, the suggestion that they use the command line – or the shell, or the terminal, or whatever else you want to call it is only slightly less welcome than the suggestion that they go out and deliberately contract AIDS.” That’s a damn sham

Good Shell Coding Practices - Handling Command Line Arguments —

Very nice look at different methods (good and bad) for handling the command line in sh scripts.

Text email clients revisited [linux.com] —

I’ve been using a fetchmail, procmail, and mutt setup on my Mac for a few months now in an attempt to get control over five different mailboxes and it’s working pretty well. If you’ve got some free time and lots of mail, consider playing around with one o

ngrep - network grep —

“strives to provide most of GNU grep’s common features, applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular or hexadecimal expressions”