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Saturday Greetings, Valuable Developer!
Hope everything’s is going well on your side!
From my side, August wasn’t all joy and happiness: I’ve been sick for most of the month, thanks to COVID. It’s a miracle that I’ve an article ready for The Valuable Dev! Thankfully, it was already largely written when I began to spend most of my life in my bed, I just had to fix some typos and make some screenshots.
This article was suggested from a reader who wanted to know more about file management in the shell. Hope you like it!
File Management Tools for Your Favorite Shell
It can be hard for beginners and experts alike to manage files efficiently in the shell. Let’s improve that with simple and powerful CLIs and TUIs.
Updates
I couldn’t do much more this month than writing the article above. I’m also sorry for everybody who wrote me some emails; I couldn’t answer all of them, but I’ll do that very soon!
Mouseless
Here are some more tools for your shell:
- The CLI qrcp can transfer files from your terminal to your phone using a simple QR code. Handy if you want to transfer quickly a file between your devices.
- The tool sox is a complete CLI allowing you to manipulate any sound.
- I’ve written in the past (including in the above article) about vidir, to manage your files and directories. The tool edir is similar, but it’s slightly more advanced and offers more options.
- The calculator Qalculate is incredible. It can do many, many things, even convert between different units. Super handy.
Book
I was able at least to read a bit this month. So I read Snow Crash, a well-known science-fiction novel by Neal Stephenson (1992). If you want to know what book coined the term “Metaverse”, and basically described what would be Google Earth, you should definitely take a look at it.
It’s funny that the book describes a horrible dystopia (a world nobody wants to live in), but it’s still a big inspiration for our gurus from the Silicon Valley. Worrying? I think so.
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Thanks for your interest in my work, and see you in a month!