2016
2015
Become a Command Line Power User with Oh-My-ZSH and Z
by 84GHz
This article provides insight into some of the best tools to use in your day-to-day workflow in the command line
2014
TTY • Toolbox for developing CLI clients in Ruby
by Spone
The Ruby toolbox that you can use for building CLI projects
2012
cowboy/grunt
by Xavier Lacot
A task-based command line build tool for JavaScript projects that makes performing repetitive but necessary tasks such as linting, unit testing, concatenating and minifying files trivial.
less (Unix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
by sylvainulg (via)
less is more ... likely one of the Unix tools I use the most
2011
Starting Amazon EC2 with Mac OS X - Robert Sosinski
by Xavier Lacot & 1 other
A complete wrap-up guide to EC2. Proved to be useful!
2010
wkhtmltopdf - Project Hosting on Google Code
by Xavier Lacot & 1 other, 1 comment
wkhtmltopdf is a shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and qt. The project also distributes wkhtmltoimage, which is an easy tool to produce web pages screenshots.
htty's htty at master - GitHub
by Xavier Lacot
htty is a console application for interacting with HTTP servers. It’s something of a cross between curl and the Lynx browser.
/usr/bin/cal changelog
by sylvainulg (via)
since the upgrade to lucid lynx, my computer throws "cal: option requires an argument -- 'm'" at me when I invoke "cal -m" to specify I'd love to have the week starting on monday.
""Proper" honoring of LC_TIME mixing it with command line options" says the changelog.
I spot that those LC_* settings are actually pointing the library towards a data chunk located in /usr/lib/locale/<language setting, e.g. en_DK.utf8>/<subset, e.g. LC_TIME, LC_MONETARY, etc.>
biko2's symfony_complete at master - GitHub
by Xavier Lacot
An autocomplete system for symfony command line. Tasty !
maatkit - Project Hosting on Google Code
by Xavier Lacot & 1 other
Maatkit is a package which contains high-quality command-line tools for MySQL. The tools enable power users of MySQL to do their work more safely and quickly by relying on tested software instead of scripting things themselves. The toolkit includes functionality such as table checksums, a query profiler, and a visual EXPLAIN tool, a multiprocess version of mysqldump.
2009
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer - good coders code, great reuse
by Xavier Lacot & 4 others
A unix utility that lets the user preview the duration of a long operation (typically, a file compression / decompression).
2008
UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits
by holyver & 4 others (via)
Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX® command line efficiency -- and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, so you can learn exactly why these UNIX habits are worth picking up.
2007
