linkding

#blogit #osx #terminal #unix | A "Siracusian" compendium of Terminal tricks on OSX. Here's a [Markdown version](http://heckyesmarkdown.com/go/?read=1&preview=0&showframe=1&u=http://furbo.org/2014/09/03/the-terminal/) if you (like me) want to save this in nvALT for future reference.

10 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

BestPig/cv

#blogit #cli #coreutils #unix | A command line tool for showing the progress of long-running coreutil functions like `mv` and `cp`.

10 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

Queuing tasks for batch execution with Task Spooler

#blogit #cli #spooler #unix | I really want to get this working on OS X, but haven't had any luck yet. It's in homebrew, but... if anyone gets this working, I'd love to know how.

10 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

Glue

#blogit #cli #shell #sublimetext #unix | A very cool Sublime Text plugin for blending your shell and your editor. Run commands, build scripts, version control... all from within Sublime.

10 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

facebook/watchman

#blogit #unix #watcher | Seems file watchers are a dime a dozen these days, but this one offers a heaping serving of configuration options and capabilities.

11 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

explainshell.com - match command-line arguments to their help text

#blogit #terminal #unix | Via [One Thing Well](http://onethingwell.org/post/60084092749/explainshell-com), this little tool can do more to explain the shell commands I and others share than any of us will probably ever write out. Just paste in the command and get an explanation for every option and argument.

11 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

Configuring Gmail as Sendmail email relay

#blogit #email #gmail #google #sendmail #unix | If you _are_ going to use sendmail, though, here's a fairly straightforward way to set it up with GMail as the SMTP relay. I assume you could apply these steps to other relay auth setups if you decided not to let Google read all of your stuff...

11 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

SendEmail

#blogit #email #scripting #sendmail #unix | This utility is available through `brew install sendemail` and it's much easier than setting up sendmail. You can cat an HTML file directly to it and set a few arguments to send beautiful emails right from shell scripts. It's how the Giveaway Robot is communicating now...

11 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

Colout

#blogit #cli #color #unix #utility | Via [Alex Krivov](https://twitter.com/alexkrivov/status/342811397777920001), a utility to color output streams on the command line. Lots of options and color mapping availabie, and it can assign different colors to numeric values.

11 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

dtrx: Intelligent archive extraction

#archiving #blogit #extraction #unix | "Do The Right Extraction": it's `extract` on steroids. I love that it handles archives that didn't put everything in a folder, it creates the folder automatically so you don't have stuff all over the folder you were working in. Haven't tested yet, hoping it works fine on BSD. [via [OneThingWell](http://onethingwell.org/post/45507327982/dtrx)]

11 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

The Silver Searcher

#blogit #cli #search #text #unix | Faster text searching from the command line. Seriously, it's fast (faster than `ack`). Installable via homebrew.

11 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

See how long a given process has been running - Mac OS X Hints

#bash #blogit #timer #unix | This could also be used to kill a long-running process without having to poll as much. Nifty trick.

11 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

Command Line Tutorials - Sed & Awk

#awk #blogit #sed #terminal #tutorial #unix | Because it's never too late to learn the classics. Like my great grandfather always said, string manipulation on the command line is an essential skill for anyone tooling around in the shell.

12 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

xmlformat: XML Document Formatter

#blogit #cli #unix #utility #xml | In working with RSS feeds for the various sites I work on I often use `curl` to pull down raw feeds without any of my default browser handlers interfering. This little CLI is easy to pipe the output through and get much, much more readable results (and work better with `grep` and `ack` as well).

12 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

sysutils/wait_on

#blogit #cli #fsevents #kqueue #unix #utility | Available through `brew`, this little command line utility lets you wait for events from kqueue before proceeding with a script. I've been looking for a simple solution like this for a while.

12 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

md2man - markdown to manpage

#blogit #manpage #markdown #unix | "md2man is a Ruby library and command-line program that converts Markdown documents into UNIX manual pages (really Roff documents) using Redcarpet."

12 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff

feedstail

#blogit #python #rss #unix #utilities | `tail` for RSS feeds.

12 years ago | View Shared by ttscoff