command line tools

Automated Processing Tools for Better Digital Pictures

Linux Today  Tue, 11/11/2008 - 17:34

Linux.com: "When you return from a trip and copy your digital pictures over to your file server, you might like to rename the image files or (losslessly) rotate them to their correct orientation to make finding and viewing them simpler.

You might even want to embed comments right into the image files in such a way that all image viewing tools should be able to harvest and share this metadata.

In this article we'll take a look at some command-line tools to help you with these tasks."


 

GDataCopier Syncs Google Docs to Your Desktop [Featured Download...

Topix - Linux  Sat, 11/08/2008 - 19:39

Windows/Mac/Linux: Looking for a quick way to upload and download files from a Google Docs account? If you're familiar with command line tools, check out GDataCopier.


 

Vista Command-Line Tools

Topix - Linux  Fri, 10/17/2008 - 04:46

Executive Summary: Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system includes a host of command-line tools to help you administer your systems.


 

Solaris and the GNU

Topix - Linux  Sat, 10/11/2008 - 14:51

The ever reoccuring customer criticism in the Q&A part of my presentations is: "Your command line tools are really strange in regard of the options.


 

Monitor file system activity with inotify

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Thu, 10/02/2008 - 12:40

Inotify is a Linux® feature that monitors file system operations, such as read, write, and create. Inotify is reactive, surprisingly simple to use, and far more efficient than, say, busy polling from a cron job.

Learn how to integrate inotify into your own applications, and discover a set of command-line tools you can use to further automate system


 

Monitor Ubuntu File System Activity With Inotify

Linux Today  Sat, 09/20/2008 - 23:02

IBM Developerworks: "Inotify is a Linux® feature that monitors file system operations, such as read, write, and create.

Inotify is reactive, surprisingly simple to use, and far more efficient than, say, busy polling from a cron job.

Learn how to integrate inotify into your own applications, and discover a set of command-line tools you can use to further automate system administration."


 

Monitor file system activity with inotify

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Fri, 09/19/2008 - 11:21

Inotify is a Linux feature that monitors file system operations, such as read, write, and create. Inotify is reactive, surprisingly simple to use, and far more efficient than, say, busy polling from a cron job.

Learn how to integrate inotify into your own applications, and discover a set of command-line tools you can use to further automate system.


 

Linux: Essential Command Line Apps For Common Tasks

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Thu, 09/18/2008 - 11:21

Yet another handy dandy (YaHD?) list of cross-referenced Linux command line tools for Fedora & Ubuntu.


 

Pytube - Best YouTube,Google manager, downloader and video conve...

Linux Today  Mon, 09/15/2008 - 17:02

Ubuntu Geek: "PyTube is a GUI for various command-line tools such as:youtube-dl, sox, mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg and others.It allows you to resize, rotate, apply an external mp3 into a video, generate a 10 to 30 seconds mp3 ring tone."


 

Writing plug-ins in Python

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Wed, 09/03/2008 - 10:15

Learn how to extend your Python command-line tools by writing plug-ins. Plug-ins offer a convenient way to extend the functionality of existing code.