Someone casually dropped a URL for a place where some wonderful shell based goodies are discussed

I went to the URL and I got a few beautiful fantastic and sexy programs purely for *sh

So whether you like csh ksh zsh tksh fish sh or any shell which I may or may not have heard of, these programs will run in them

httping horst

These two are making my day

Check their man pages on the internet.

httping looks gorgeous with the -K switch

I will update this toot with an output of the commands. I shall make the screen caps on my Linux machine

horst outputs sensitive data on the first page so I chose another innocent output
tab

#Thankful #FediVerse #POSIX #OpenSource #httping #horst #programming #networking #csh #ksh #zsh #bash #tksh #fish #sh

@fbfortune

This works in all OpenSource shells that I have worked with

#bash #csh #zsh #ksh #tksh #sh #fish

This is

`
curl ysap.sh/episodes
`

Here you can find the jump table for the subjects handled

#programming #guides #ysap #bash #csh #ksh #sh #tksh #OpenSource

The ysap series is wonderfull, both occasional and full time programmers can benifit from the series. curl to it with

`curl ysap.sh`

#programming #guides #ysap #bash #csh #ksh #sh #tksh #OpenSource

Reminding all programmers to have a read at

`curl style.ysap.sh`

#programming #youSuck #sh #shell #bash #csh #zsh #ksh #tksh #fish

Photograph with FFmpeg output in Bash

#Bash #csh #zsh #ksh #tksh #sh #FFmpeg #programming

When was the last time that you typed

in your ba{c{k{z}}}sh?

Do you know that this command has been driving many many video Systems Servers and programmes for long time?

Type

Check out what the command does. If You do anything video related, look if FFmpeg already executes it gorgeously in the backend so all you need to do is write a front End.

Happy programming

#Bash #csh #zsh #ksh #tksh #sh #FFmpeg #programming

Bash csh zsh ksh tksh fish are powerful CLI tools

Entire networks can be controlled and build with them.

Let's take for example command line tools to control media output

For me e.g mplayer and vlc -I cli are much more interesting when it comes down to standard control of media playback. I prefer to use MOC (mocp) Music 🎼 on Console, instead of bulky RAM hungry programs, which go on the internet to _fetch data that I never asked for$ and thus burn bandwidth

The memory footprint of Music on Console is so low that you can use it on a system which has been built more than two and a half decades ago.

The only graphical media playback program I know that can do that also has been written by my friend Andy Loafoe and that is alsaplayer

Andy programmed alsaplayer when he saw Delitracker playing on my Amiga systems
We're talking the period when Linux was barely moving in Xwindows when you had window managers like fvwm & twm and few others.
The alsa audio interface was also just born.

It is within this context that Andy envisioned alsaplayer. It should be modular just like Delitracker Amiga, it should be lightweight Delitracker runs on an Amiga A500 with just half A megabyte of chip ram
That should still be memory left to do other the things so straight calls were made to widget libraries which explains the simplicity yet great usability of the UI. For as far as I remember Andy has also written an API for Alsaplayer

Within a few weeks to a few months of coding alsaplayer came out of Alpha and went Bèta in code stability.

Because everything was written with efficiency in mind and it was programmed as portable as possible, alsaplayer can still be used many decades after It has been written

One of the main reasons is that it has been coded by a command line programmer

Alsaplayer has been ported to many different Operating System Architectures including freeBSD

For me working on the command line has always been logical, graphic user interfaces were only used when absolutely necessary think about GEOS on the C64

I started coding on the Casio FX 700p programmable calculator. I went so far to make program code that was in the book more efficient by crunching all the commands with two letter abbreviations.

The power of the Command Line something the Young Ones should Learn

Alsaplayer manpage

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=alsaplayer&sektion=1&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE+and+Ports

#programming #Bash #csh #zsh #ksh #tksh #fish #alsaplayer #MOC #mocp #VLC #widgets #libraries #Amiga #RetroComputing