Blog posts in category “Command Line”
Blog posts about different aspects of doing things on a command line
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Apr 1st, 2024Documentation pages from dotfiles with config-renderer
Making dotfiles readable isn’t always easy. To tackle that challenge, I created config-renderer, a Python CLI tool that documents dotfiles as HTML pages with a bit of custom markup.
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Nov 4th, 2023Use SQL to query your CSV files
You don’t need to store your data in database just to be able to query it with SQL. You can use csvsql instead!
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Oct 11th, 2023Handling JSON on command line
JSON is a good format for programmatic use but it’s rather verbose to read and traverse unless you use JSON specific tooling. In this post I take a look at a few options: jq, jless and fx.
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Jun 21st, 2023Give your commands consistent names
A discussion in fediverse lead me to a wonderful path to learn about different approaches people have to wrap different software development commands behind unified interface.
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Mar 17th, 2021How to parse command line arguments in Python
Python is a great language for writing command line applications. Its built-in tool for parsing arguments is powerful and I gathered together some of the most used cases.
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Jul 27th, 2019Why I love using command line interface?
Command Line Interface (CLI) can seem ancient way of interacting with computers but it has many great benefits.
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Jan 16th, 2014Command line magic with git and bash history
So, in the beginning of January I started as an engineering intern in Chartio and since that my workflow has really improved a lot and I’ve learned and discovered some tricks.