Tag: shell

Shell scripting and terminal productivity.

• Web Scraping on the Shell

  22 Apr, 2024

  • linux (5)
  • shell (4)
  • web-scraping (1)

  Often times there's data on the internet we'd like to get our hands on. In most cases I'd start on a Python script with the usual suspects requests, beautifulsoup4, json or csv. This works well butwhen the task in question only needs to be run once, it would be alot easier to run a few commands on the shell.

• Makefile Madness

  27 Jun, 2019

  • shell (4)
  • make (1)

  Tricks for transforming Make into a command runner.

• Colouring arbitrary shell output

  24 Mar, 2019

  • python (5)
  • shell (4)
  • linux (5)

  Color shell output with python-pygments.

• Data flow on the shell

  22 Mar, 2019

  • bash (1)
  • shell (4)
  • linux (5)

  Different ways to move data around the shell.