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• Geek To Live: Manage your life via SMS

  Published: July 27, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Calendar, Cell Phones, Command Line, Feature, Geek To Live, Gizmodo, Messaging, Mobile, Mobile Phones, Reminders, Sms, Top

  The command line's making a comeback, but the terminal window, keyword launcher and search box aren't the only textual command interfaces—your cell phone has joined the party. More and more modern webapps let you interact with your data via SMS, updating and retrieving your information in the cloud on the go. You don't need a fancy mobile

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• Open man pages from Xcode

  Published: July 30, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Applescript, Command Line, Commandline, Manopen, Manpage, Manual, Scripting, Xcode

  anything together from the command line in Xcode in a while), but anyone building stuff there will probably appreciate it.And if viewing pretty man pages from the command line is your thing, Atomicbird Software came up with a script that breaks out man pages in PDF form. If you love working from the command line but love reading man pages in

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• Hack Attack: Take Launchy beyond application launching

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Application Launching, Command Line, Exclusive Lifehacker Download, Feature, Hack Attack, How To, Keyboard Shortcuts, Launchy, Lifehacker Code, Productivity, To Do List, Top, Twitter

  with cURL (an open source command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax) and Twitter.* So if you don't already have it, go download cURL (find the Windows section), then extract the curl.exe file to C:WINDOWS. Now download this zipped folder. Inside you'll see several batch files I've prepared for you. Basically, we're going to use

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• Featured Windows Download: Automate free software installations with Win-Get

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Command Line, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Installation, Windows

  Windows only: Freeware command line utility Win-Get is a Windows version of the popular Linux command line tool, apt-get. Win-Get can automate the installation of freeware applications with a simple command line syntax. For example, you can download and install the latest and greatest Firefox with win-get install firefox. This kind of command

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• Featured Mac Download: Access terminal from anywhere with Visor

  Published: August 1, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Command Line, Downloads, Featured Mac Download, Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Terminal, Top

  Mac OS X only: Blacktree software—the people who reached into the heavens and pulled down Quicksilver—want to make getting to Terminal no matter where you are as easy as the press of a hotkey with Visor. With Visor running, hit the user-defined hotkey (Ctrl-F1 by default) and a slick terminal window will slide down at the top of your

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• Time Tracker: Turn the terminal into a stopwatch with time cat

  Published: August 2, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Command Line, Linux, Linux Tip, Mac, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Terminal, Time Tracker

  of their 150 quick Linux command tips, A Linux Sysad Blog demonstrates how you can use your terminal as a stopwatch by entering the command time cat. In order to stop the terminal stopwatch, hit Control + C; the terminal will then display the amount of time that passed next to "real". Time cat works equally well in Linux and Mac OS X. If

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• Terminal: Printable beginner's guide to the terminal

  Published: August 7, 2007, 11:35 am

  Tags: Command Line, Linux, Linux Tip, Terminal

  Included in the guide are commands for: working with files, obtaining system information, managing processes and file permissions, file compression, shortcuts, network management, and SSH. This guide is perfect for recent switchers ready to take the terminal head-on. While you're learning the terminal, turbocharge it. Unix/Linux Command Cheat

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• Linux Tip: Spell check a file from the terminal

  Published: August 16, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Command Line, Linux, Linux Tip, Spell Check, Terminal

  specializing in terminal commands, A Linux Sysad Blog, introduces spell and shows how you can use it to turn the terminal into the world's fastest spell checker. Spell has two primary uses; the first simply lists all of the misspelled words in a document. Spell can also be used to interactively spell check a document (shown in the

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• Linux Tip: Spell-check a file from the terminal

  Published: August 16, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Command Line, Linux, Linux Tip, Spell Check, Terminal

  specializing in terminal commands, A Linux Sysad Blog, introduces spell and shows how you can use it to turn the terminal into the world's fastest spell-checker. Spell has two primary uses; the first simply lists all of the misspelled words in a document. Itl can also be used to interactively spell-check a document (shown in the screenshot).

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• Windows Tip: Switch user accounts from the Command Prompt

  Published: August 17, 2007, 9:33 am

  Tags: Command Line, Desktop, User Interface, Windows Tip, Windows Xp

  users from the Windows Command Prompt without logging off - if say, you need to access folders or files for another Windows user account. Reader PiE writes in explaining the process. 1. Quit explorer.exe 2. Open Command Prompt 3. Navigate to C:WINDOWSsystem32 4. Enter the following command: runas /user:*computer name*account name

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• Play Audio URLs from the iPhone Command Line

  Published: August 17, 2007, 9:15 am

  Tags: Audio, Command Line, Commandline, Internet, Iphone, Playaudio, Unix, Urls, Utilities

  the following at the iPhone command line: playaudio http://steiner.math.nthu.edu.tw/ne01/tjy/music/06.I%20Just%20Called%20To%20Say%20I%20Love%20You.mp3 And...it worked. Just like that, the instrumental-only cover began to play back through my iPhone speakers. Apparently, Apple has merged the concept of "local file" and "URL" a lot more closely

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• Linux Tip: Find Anything From the Terminal

  Published: August 22, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Command Line, Desktop Search, Linux, Linux Tip, Terminal

  Oldie but goodie terminal command, find, can be used to locate literally any file on your system. Tech weblog dmiessler.com introduces find and runs through its functionality starting with simple searches and covering very complicated criteria. Find can be used to locate files based on a plethora of criteria that includes name, directory, date

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• Featured Download: Delete Duplicate Files with the Dupinator

  Published: August 28, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Command Line, Cygwin, Featured Download, File Diff, Linux, Mac Os X, Python, Scripts

  fast and easy (if at the command line) on folders containing even thousands of files. To use it, save the source as dupinator.py to your computer, back up the folder you want to de-duplicate (better safe than sorry), and run it from the command line like so: dupinator.py /Users/gina/folder-with-lots-of-files/Substituting in your folder to

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• Command Line: Determine File Types from the Terminal

  Published: September 5, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Command Line, Linux, Linux Tip, Mac, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Terminal

  the file filename terminal command to quickly identify file information. Occasionally you will come across files that have an incorrect or missing file extension. As shown above, the file command analyzes the file given as an argument and displays details about the file. This command is especially useful when it comes to managing large

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• Command Line: Windows and Linux Terminal Performance Comparison

  Published: September 7, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Command Line, Linux, Terminal, Windows, Windows Xp

  tested include the Windows Command Prompt, PuTTY, gnome-terminal, konsole, aterm, wterm, xterm and Eterm. Spoiler alert: The fastest terminal benchmarked was gnome-terminal (followed closely by konsole). PuTTY came in at a distant 30th place and the Windows Command Prompt rolled in at disappointing 35th. Comprehensive Linux Terminal

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