If you want to use Mastodon through a command line interface or text-based user interface, there's a tool you can install which offers both called "toot":
Okay, so. I have a #PDF and a #DOCX file. And I’d like to compare them. And since I’m a programmer, I don’t want to compare them visually, but with a #diff. But how?
Like this.
alias pdfcat='gs -q -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o-'
alias doccat='pandoc -t plain'
pdfcat a.pdf > a.txt
doccat b.docx > b.txt
git diff --no-index --word-diff a.txt b.txt
And since we’re using --word-diff, it doesn’t matter that the two files use wildly different line wrapping.
I am currently looking for a new full-time remote position!
With 11 years of experience as a back-end lead engineer (not full-stack), I am specialized in Node.js APIs and CLIs.
Most recently I have been Netlify Build's and Netlify Plugins' technical lead for 2.5 years.
I wanted to have a command that prints out asset urls for a long time already. Now it is shipped. You can use it for example to generate a json file with the extension key: url map to use it for more complex cases in your frontend js builds. #typo3#cli#typo3console
If you start a program in a terminal (usually a graphical one), you can "detach" it from the terminal, allowing you to close the terminal while leaving the application running. To do this, press Ctrl+Z in the terminal after starting the application, then run bg to background it, then disown to detach it. Then you can close the terminal or run exit and the application will keep running.
If you haven't launched the program yet, you can do this in one go with program & disown - the program will start, and you can close the terminal without also closing the program.
Before executing important commands and scripts over #SSH, use #screen in case of disconnect. If your connection drops or you close the terminal, you can SSH back in and enter screen -r to recover from where you left off. Being reunited with that hanging command prompt will be a relief! #tuesdaytip#gnu#linux#cli#admin
Numbat (https://numbat.dev/) is a calculator thing that understands units. They recently added some date and time support, which I'm hoping will satisfy my need for easy to use date math. #Rust#cli
"Coccinelle is a tool for automatic program matching and transformation that was originally developed for making large scale changes to the Linux kernel source #code (ie, C code)."
Hey #phptek, less than two hours until we talk about #PHP on the #CLI. Be there or be…in another session more aligned with your interests and/or learning goals.
Or taking time for yourself (remember: we’re only halfway through the conference and it’s important to pace yourself).
Or building lifelong friendships with fellow attendees.
I hope you spend the 3pm hour with me, but however you choose to spend it I hope you enjoy!