Mastodawn

Delighted to discover you can now choose where to wrap long columns in 'column', the useful linux cmdline util with the 'wrap-separator' flag (since v2.42+, April 2026).

Column is so handy to format text reports.

https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/commit/5fd9b8c95ca67e1c14002c6c2b04315049ef14ba

https://man.archlinux.org/man/column.1.en

#linux #cmdline #unixphilosophy

column: add --wrap-separator option for custom text wrapping · util-linux/util-linux@5fd9b8c

Add a new --wrap-separator option that allows users to specify custom separator characters for text wrapping within table columns. When used with --table-wrap, the separator is replaced with newlin...

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Leszek Jun 12

handy random string (password) generator

echo `tr --complement --delete "a-fA-F0-9" < /dev/urandom | head -c 12`

#bash #cmdline #tricks

source: https://github.com/YunoHost/yunohost/blob/b1ce284434a06e204e6eda17746d1d60990be811/helpers/helpers.v2.1.d/string#L29

yunohost/helpers/helpers.v2.1.d/string at b1ce284434a06e204e6eda17746d1d60990be811 · YunoHost/yunohost

YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash. - YunoHost/yu...

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Patrick

Jun 5

One Open-source Project Daily

A Command Line Parser

https://github.com/tanakh/cmdline

#1ospd #opensource #cpp #cplusplus #cmdline

GitHub - tanakh/cmdline: A Command Line Parser

A Command Line Parser. Contribute to tanakh/cmdline development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ross of Ottawa May 13

Who do you usually ping?

…when you need to spontaneously check if you can see the WAN from the #cmdLine of a system.

For me it's usually ping cnn.com.

I guess it was cuz it is short and quick. I've been using that for at least 28yrs. Just tradition now. I hope they don't stop responding to ICMP requests. lol

#ping #icmp