Today I m releasing an initial version of my latest tool, CurlyQ . It s a work in progress, though should be immediately useful to those who need it. I need your input on where it goes next, what s

I needed to write some Bash scripts on Linux that read the input from stdin or a file passed as an optional argument, but couldn't figure...

Most of the time, a terminal is a productivity powerhouse. But there's more to the terminal than commands and configurations.

Introducing the GitHub Classroom CLI extension for the GitHub CLI

[Keba] not only asked Answeres.HackaDay.com, but also sent us an email as follows. “Can you make a basic guide to designing a good Command Line User Interface?” Wouldn’t you know …

Downloading whole YouTube channels using the yt-dlp tool, with specifying video quality and format types. For a general run down and usage guide on yt-dlp go here. Go to the bottom for the full yt-dlp…

How to list Windows environment variables and display their values using Windows command-line prompt (CMD) or using the PowerShell.

A bash script to check the HTTP status code of a bunch of URLs, for simple and portable uptime checking.

OpenSSH release notes

A while back, I wrote about how handy it was to redirect a man page into Preview. This allows you to keep the man page open, search it, and generally have a better user experience than struggling w…

The DevTerm R-01 is a RISC-V based "slabtop" computer.

Become a master of tmux in a few minutes

A brief review and guide to Blink Shell, an SSH and Mosh client for iOS.

`wget --mirror -p --html-extension --convert-links -e robots=off -P . http://url-to-site` I needed to archive several WordPress sites as part of the process of gathering the raw data for my thesis research. I found a few recipes online for using wget to grab entire sites, but they all needed some tweaking. So, here's my recipe for posterity: I used wget, which is available on any linux-ish system (I ran it on the same Ubuntu server that hosts the sites). wget --mirror -p --html-extension --convert-links -e robots=off -P .

In this tutorial, we'll cover in detail some of the best uses for the macOS command line tool. Including: how to watch an ASCII version of Star Wars on the Mac using Terminal

Linux distributions are great to use and they have some tricks under their sleeves which users may not be aware of. Let’s have a look at some command line utilities which really come in handy when you’re the guy that likes to stick with the terminal rather than using a GUI.  We all know that […]