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  • macallik@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    Using curl as a substitute for man/help has made it one of my most used commands for me as of late:

    curl cheat.sh/AnyLinuxCommand to view tldr/cheat tips

    Also great for the weather via curl wttr.in

    Hopefully more commands utilize this technique

  • netvor@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    Today I learned:

    • curl development cycle has a cooldown after a freeze.

    How cool is that?

  • danielbln@lemmy.world
    105·
    1 year ago

    I recently watched the 3.5-hour workshop Mastering the curl command line by Daniel Stenberg, the author of curl

    I commend the author for watching and subsequently summarizing this into a blog article, but in the age of LLMs like ChatGPT I cannot be arsed anymore to memorize any of the arcane command line arguments of curl, ffmpeg and the like.

    • BeanCounter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      43·
      1 year ago

      One of the real turn offs to most of the people about using cli.

      With gui you stumble around and make it work. With CLI you at least need a blog post read and at most need 2+hrs tutorial.

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        See, I need a two hour tutorial to use the GUI because everything’s scattered all over the place. If I want to know the options for a CLI tool I just read the man page.

      • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Until the time comes where the GUI just doesn’t have the specific option for what you want to do, and then usually you can string commands together into scripts to do it. That’s where its power lies. Every command/utility on a Unix/Linux system is meant to be a tiny building block to use to accomplish a more complex task.

        You can’t possibly program an option for every contingency into a static GUI, but you can hand the user a toolbox of command line utilities and then they can accomplish nearly anything.