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#commandline

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Nicolas Delsaux

Un outil en ligne de commande bien pratique quand on utilise RabbitMQ. Il y a juste un piège : il utilise tantôt l'url http du broker (quand on fait rabtap info) tantôt l'url amqp du broker (quand on fait rabtap pub ou rabtap sub). github.com/jandelgado/rabtap?t #opensource #commandline #rabbitmq #software #go

RabbitMQ wire tap and swiss army knife. Contribute to jandelgado/rabtap development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHubGitHub - jandelgado/rabtap: RabbitMQ wire tap and swiss army knifeRabbitMQ wire tap and swiss army knife. Contribute to jandelgado/rabtap development by creating an account on GitHub.
Armin Hanisch

The Bard and The Shell

A lot of introductions to using a shell — whether it’s Linux, one of the BSDs, the Mac (or even Windows using WSL!) — show examples that are a bit on the light side (looking at you, cowsay ?

) or dump cryptical command sequences on the unwary newbie that make an inscription in hieroglyphs on an Egyptian temple column look easy. Both approaches make sense. The first one tries not to scare people when they use the command line, while the second one shows how powerful it is compared to […]

journal.bsd.cafe/2025/07/28/th

#commandline#tutorial
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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:

New #blog post: Why I Love the Command Line

https://rldane.space/why-i-love-the-command-line.html

1081 words

I was grappling with a much heavier subject for a blost, but thankfully, I had this extra little subject in my back pocket, just ready to be picked up and written on much more easily and enjoyably than mental health stuff. ;)

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#100DaysToOffload #45

rldane.spaceWhy I Love the Command Line
#rlDaneWriting#blost#writing
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Don

The power of LibreOffice

I have many documents created with Microsoft Office for assignments written for graduate school courses years ago. How can I easily convert those dozens of documents to a different format without using an online application? This is an excellent example of the power of open source.

Five years ago I took a course at a local university where all of the documents were provided in ‘docx’ format. Is there a way to convert those documents to an ‘odt’ format? There is and it is quite simple. 

$libreoffice --headless --convert-to odt *.docx

What if I decided I wanted to convert those ‘docx’ items to ‘html’ so they could easily be shared on my classroom website. What if I had wanted to convert all those documents to html? 

$libreoffice --headless --convert-to html *.docx

I can use the same tool to turn those ‘docx’ files into ‘pdf’ files with an iteration of the same command.

$libreoffice –headless –convert-to pdf *.docx

Using LibreOffice from the command line inside the directory where the files you want to convert is easy and the conversion is accomplished in a matter of seconds depending on your processor and memory. You can find many more uses of LibreOffice from the command line by entering the following command on your own command line if you have LibreOffice installed as most Linux distributions do. 

$libreoffice --help

This is a great example of the power of open source software.

www.libreoffice.orgHome | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with MicrosoftFree office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.
#commandLine#LibreOffice
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JdeBP

@gsuberland

In fairness, that's a culture that the GNOME, KDE, et al. desktop people changed by doing, years ago.

They've had long meaningful names, with more than 1 vowel in, in the desktop applications world for years.

When it comes to nomenclature "st" actually sucks *more* as a name to unfamiliar users than "gnome-terminal". (-:

It's the same sort of deal with the "convenience" aliases versus the full cmdlet names in #PowerShell.

#CommandLine#nomenclature
WidgetJones :transgender:

@Birk_lab There are suitable #Linux replacements for practically any #Microsoft package. Most VM use cases are for gaming and some CAD software. The user friendly Linux distros have them pre installed. For moving files, I'm not sure what you mean. Permissions are by design so you don't nuke your distro. They are easily manipulated thru the #commandline and require very little research. Although some popular Linux distros allow it thru their file managers.

Martin Owens :inkscape:

I had a dream last night I was the host of a popular YouTube show which was basically Cribs, but for famous programmers showing me around their command line shell setup.

The Linus Torvalds episode did numbers, but no one wanted to watch me show myself around my own shell.

😅 such is the fickle imaginary audience of one's own dreams. Lol.

#programming#commandline#foss
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