A Unix and Linux Command Line Dictionary For Those Of Us Who Love The CLI :)

A simple Bash script to parse Google's PR checksum and return any pages rank from the command line!

The first time I played with Zenity, I recognized several potential uses for it. While I'm pretty comfortable with interacting with computers with a command line interface, I know many people are not. Zenity creates GUI widgets from a simple command line and can be used from any shell script.

A simple shell script to grab information from an online thesaurus. Had I used it, this tagline might be more colorful ;)

A somewhat simple init script generator for Linux or Unix. Created 2 years ago, but needed some retooling before being released into the wild.

In the last article I talked about simple command pipelines, one of the features that makes the Linux command line so powerful and so worth learning. So if you want to get comfortable using the command line, here are some tips that will make it a lot easier.

Scripts are files that contain shell commands which may be short or can be very complex. Scripts just make it easier because you can invoke one command to run all of the commands in the script. Here instead of using 8 separate commands you can use one command to execute all of them.

How to use a Bash Shell script to record the activity of users. This
script is useful in rebuilding the actions of users as they work at
the command line.

The script command makes a transcript of the text that is printed to the terminal. You can record your interaction with the shell using this command.