March 23, 2009

Tweet from the command line

Twitter is awesome, but who has time to fire up a browser, log in, type what you’re doing, just to be a part of the Twitter sensation?   If you spend more of your time on the command line, I’ll show you how to send your twitter messages using a simple bash script. #!/bin/bash user=twitteruser pass=twitterpass [...]

September 28, 2008

Linux Command Line Basics

I remember when I first discovered the command line.  The ERP software package at work runs on a SCO Unix server and is designed to be very idiot proof and start up immediately upon login.  I was born in an ugly Microsoft Windows world where you click on everything and little boxes pop up in [...]