SitePoint: PHP on the Command Line (Pt. 1)
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2)
08/11/2004 08:33 AMNew on
SitePoint today, there's
a new posting from
Harry
Fuecks in a continuation of his "PHP on the Command Line" series -
Part
2.
Command Line PHP
Command Line PHP
12/20/2002 10:51 AMCommand Line PHP
Since I was doing this yesterday, I appreciated this pointer from
Keith (who also helpfully has links to Lord of the Rings Reviews)
[_Go_]
Command Line Progress Bar 1.04
Command Line Progress Bar 1.04
10/31/2003 05:11 PMA simple command line tool to display information about a data
transfer stream.
Mac OS X command line tab completion
Mac OS X command line tab completion
09/23/2004 03:00 AMTech-Recipes Sep 23 2004 5:45AM GMT
Abusing the command line
Abusing the command line
04/09/2004 04:08 PMIf you're running OS X, try this:
say -v Kathy `curl --silent
http://api.technorati.com/getinfo?username=simonwillison | grep
'<inbound' | sed -e 's/ <//' | sed -e
's/inboundblogs>/Simons blog has /' | sed -e
's/<\/inboundblogs>/ inbound blogs and /' | sed -e
's/inboundlinks>//' | sed -e 's/<\/inboundlinks>/ inbound
links/'`
Your computer should read out to you my Technorati inbound blogs
and inbound links, extracted from the Technorati web API. Parsing
XML using sed is
a nasty trick I picked up from this O'Reilly article;
speaking the output of a command using the 'say' and the backtick
shell operator was my moment of inspiration for the day.
The Command Line Is Your Friend
The Command Line Is Your Friend
03/06/2004 01:56 AMIf you're in the tech field, it might behoove you to know your
command line utilities, and to have a copy of Cygwin handy if you run Windows.
There are reasons why those old-school UNIX guys look down their long
beards at the rest of us with disdain for not knowing the system
shell. I ran across a great use of command line tools today that I
thought I'd share.
Continue reading "The Command Line Is Your Friend"
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10.3: Fax from command line (or
AppleScript)
10.3: Fax from command line (or
AppleScript)
12/05/2003 11:21 AMI was working on this to be able to fax from Filemaker with FM
scripting and AppleScripting. I needed to print to a file (a .ps
file), then send the resulting file to the fax. Fax is actually a CUPS
print queue, and I just ne...
Pizza From the Command Line
Pizza From the Command Line
05/07/2004 07:14 PMPHP on the Command Line - Part 2
PHP on the Command Line - Part 2
08/11/2004 07:01 PMTake your knowledge of the command line interface a step further with
Harry's PHP-centric series. Part 2 shows how you can hook up a command
line PHP script with existing command line tools provided by your
operating system.
PHP on the Command Line - Part 1
PHP on the Command Line - Part 1
06/16/2004 07:29 PMRoutine administration of your PHP Website is easily achieved via
PHP's CLI, or command line interface. In the first instalment of his
two-part series, Harry looks at the fundamentals of working with the
PHP command line.
A command line ogg to mp3 converter
A command line ogg to mp3 converter
08/09/2004 11:34 AMUsing the same paradigm as ChrisR's flac to mp3 command line script,
I've done the same to convert ogg files to mp3s using command line
tools.
You'll need to download and compile the vorbis player/encoder tools
for everyone ...
SMS Command Line Script
SMS Command Line Script
12/28/2004 11:27 PMPHP Command Line Module
PHP Command Line Module
06/04/2004 10:43 AMPEAR Console
Classes: Here's a tutorial on a fascinating little PEAR module
that facilitates using PHP from the command line. It has methods for
rendering tables, displaying progress bars, and doing color formatting
on ANSI compliant terminals, this giving you some flexibility when
developing PHP command line apps. Fascinating what these guys come up
with.
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Command Line Timeclock 0.2-r2
Command Line Timeclock 0.2-r2
06/13/2004 09:25 PMA command line timesheet application.
ISU Command-Line Switches
ISU Command-Line Switches
01/01/2005 10:21 AMCommand-Line Accountant 0.2
Command-Line Accountant 0.2
02/17/2004 05:39 AMA command-line personal finance utility.
Command Line Progress Bar 1.09
Command Line Progress Bar 1.09
06/01/2004 10:34 AMA simple command line tool to display information about a data
transfer stream.
Command Line Timeclock 0.2
Command Line Timeclock 0.2
06/07/2004 09:17 AMA command line timesheet application.
MSI FAQ: Command-line for SMS
Distribution
MSI FAQ: Command-line for SMS
Distribution
06/24/2004 11:31 AMCommand-Line Accountant 0.11
Command-Line Accountant 0.11
12/21/2003 04:45 PMA command-line personal finance utility.
ISU Command Line Syntax
ISU Command Line Syntax
07/26/2004 03:52 AMCommand line blacklisting
Command line blacklisting
09/09/2004 01:15 AMJust over a year ago, I started blacklisting domain
names from links featured in comment spam. My idea then was that these
blacklists could become a shared resource: people would publish their
own blacklist and subscribe to those of people they trust, thus making
it much harder for spammers to operate. While the sheer volume of spam
domains meant that the technique was much less useful than I
originally anticipated, I've continued to maintain my blacklist ever
since as a preventative measure against repeat spammers.
I have a confession to make: all of my blog administration
(with the exception of adding entries and blogmarks) is performed
using phpMyAdmin. The trouble
with writing your own software is that it's very easy to skimp on the
backend tools, since you're the only person who will ever see them.
Incidentally, this is the main reason I plan to switch to WordPress just as soon as I find the
inspiration to write the necessary import scripts. Comments are
deleted in phpMyAdmin, and domains are blacklisted by manually editing
the blacklist.txt
file via FTP.
This has been really bugging me, especially since I have
so little other use for FTP that my only installed client is an
unregistered version of Transmit (closes after ten
minutes, won't save passwords along with account details). I've been
muddling along with that for longer than I care to admit, but today I
decided to take 10 minutes out to solve the problem once and for all.
I could have put together a web interface for adding new domains but I
wasn't really in the mood, so I decided to put time spent reading The Art of Unix
Programming to good use and knock out a simple command line
application.
The result (minus my login details) can be found here. Sample usage: ./blacklist.py
www.domain.org www.domain2.com. It follows the Unix ideal of
being the simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work, and ended up taking
longer to write than I expected thanks mainly to the craziness of
Python's ftplib
. I've seen complaints about this before, and it thoroughly
deserves its bad reputation.
Here's one example: retrlines is the method
used to retrieve ascii text from the server. Bizzarely, it doesn't
actually return the text receieved; instead, it expects you to provide
it with a callback function that will be fed each line in turn, minus
the newline. Sounds like a job for Stri
ngIO, but StringIO objects don'y have a writeline
method (required to add the newline back on). I ended up writing my
own extension of the StringIO2 class and adding a
writeline method just to preserve the newlines returned from the
server!
Strange APIs aside, I'm pretty pleased with the final
result. It follows a bunch of Unix design patterns (and skips others
such as those related to configuration, but I'm not overly bothered
about those) including the following:
- A usage note is displayed if no arguments are provided.
- Multiple domains can be blacklisted at once, by providing them as
multiple command line arguments.
- Domains that are already in the blacklist are skipped, and a
message is written to standard error.
- If the script suceeds, it doesn't say anything at all.
It also uses the common Python idiom of wrapping the
principle logic in a function and then calling that from a block that
runs only if the file is executed directly (the __name__ ==
'__main__' idiom) so that other Python code can import the
module and reuse its functionality if required.
There's plenty of room for improvement: being able to pipe
a list of domains in via standard input would be nice, and hard coding
the (unencrypted) username and password is sloppy (as is expecting the
blacklist.txt file to live in the FTP home directory). Even better, with SSH access the whole thing could be
replaced with an infinitely more secure one-liner: echo www.domain-to-ban.org | ssh username@server "cat -
>> blacklist.txt". I'm happy though: an irritating task has
become much less irritating and I have some example code to fall back
on next time I need to get mucky with ftplib.
Building MSI command line
Building MSI command line
01/19/2004 12:34 AMCommand Line Accountant
Command Line Accountant
12/09/2003 12:22 AMVersion 0.1 has been released
"In the Beginning was the Command Line
2004"
"In the Beginning was the Command Line
2004"
01/06/2005 05:05 PMAdd login items via the command line
Add login items via the command line
03/22/2005 03:39 PMThis is simple but handy command to add LoginItems (items that are
executed after the user logs in) via the command line using the
default tool. To add a normal startup item, use this syntax:
defaults write loginwindow AutoL...
Perl Command-Line Options
Perl Command-Line Options
08/10/2004 06:02 PMAfter looking at special variables, Dave Cross now casts his eye over
the impressive range of functionality available from simple
command-line options to the Perl interpreter.
InstallShield: Compiling at the Command
Line
InstallShield: Compiling at the Command
Line
06/10/2004 04:48 AMSynchronize the iDisk from the command
line
Synchronize the iDisk from the command
line
06/25/2004 10:25 AMI've been experimenting alot with Perl lately, and was looking for a
way to synchronize my iDisk via the command line, or with an
AppleScript. I scoured the web for such a technique, but to no avail.
I knew that the MirrorA...
10.3: Turn fax services on and off from
the command Line
10.3: Turn fax services on and off from
the command Line
01/22/2004 02:36 AMFaxing is a cool feature on OS X, but few people purchase a separate
phone line for a fax machine at home. So, if you want to receive a
fax during the day on your home Mac, then legitimate callers will get
the fax tone rathe...
Add Dock items from the command line
Add Dock items from the command line
08/20/2004 10:00 AMThe file /System -> Library -> CoreServices -> Dock.app -> Contents ->
Resources -> English.lproj -> default.plist
appears to contain the default dock items that appear for a new user.
Compared to what appears in a typical co...
Is the command line necessary for most
Linux users?
Is the command line necessary for most
Linux users?
01/05/2004 04:50 AMEvery time I write an article about normal people using Linux with
little or no training, a few weisenhimers inevitably accuse me of
being an overly optimistic advocate by not warning readers that it
takes a least some knowledge of Bash to run and maintain a Linux
installation. The problem with this accusation is that it might have
been true in 1998, but it is not true in 2004. It is now possible to
run Linux without knowing any commands beyond point-and-click,
cut-and-paste, and drag-and-drop. Indeed, those are the only ones I
use for everyday computing myself.
SqlCli (SQL Command Line Interpreter)
SqlCli (SQL Command Line Interpreter)
08/03/2004 07:44 PMSqlCli 1.0-beta-1 released
In The Beginning Was The Command Line,
Updated
In The Beginning Was The Command Line,
Updated
01/05/2005 08:43 AMProNet: XSH: Command-line XML shell
ProNet: XSH: Command-line XML shell
03/24/2005 05:21 AMIf you're Perl-fluent amd looking for a cool little tool to work with
XML data, check out the XSH command-line interface. As described in
this DevX article: Enter XSH, an open source command-line XML shell
that lets you interactively query...
Get the dimensions of most images from
the command line
Get the dimensions of most images from
the command line
12/02/2003 12:38 AMYou can use the file unix command in the Terminal to quickly find the
dimensions of (most) images.
karma:~/Sites/somepics me$ file *
yel-pale-grad.gif: GIF image data, version 89a, 20 x 125
m46.jpg: JPEG ima...
Command line Futurama quotes
Command line Futurama quotes
02/10/2004 02:44 AMToday's command line amusement:
lynx -mime_header http://slashdot.org/ | head -n 6 | tail
-1
Command-line pizza-orderator
Command-line pizza-orderator
05/07/2004 03:35 AMpizza_party is an open-source command-line app for ordering pizzas
from Domino's.
pizza_party [-o|--onions] [-g|--green-peppers] [-m|--mushrooms]
[-v|--olives] [-t|--tomatoes] [-h|--pineapple] [-x|--extra-cheese]
[-d|--cheddar-cheese] [-p|--pepperoni] [-s|--sausage] [-w|--ham]
[-b|--bacon] [-e|--ground-beef] [-c|--grilled-chicken]
[-z|--anchovies] [-u|--extra-sauce] [-U|--user= username]
[-P|--password= pasword] [-I|--input-file= input-file] [-V|--verbose]
[-Q|--quiet] [-F|--force] [QUANTITY] [SIZE] [CRUST]
* Can order pizza with only a few keystrokes.
* Can save pizza preferences.
* Can use batch files for ordering many pizzas.
* Has easy to use flags for ordering different toppings.
* Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems.
* Supports most currently popular topings like "mushrooms", and
"pepperoni"!
* Unattended / background operation.
* Pizza Party is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Link
(
via Kottke)
Quit applications from the command line
Quit applications from the command line
06/25/2004 10:25 AMThe recent hint to “Extend the power of 'open -a'” inspired me to
write this quick hack to quit an application:
#!/bin/sh
echo | osascript <<EOF
tell application "$*"
quit
end tell
EOF
Call it quit, save it in ...
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