Tag: cli

Shell scripts hit a complexity wall. Go gives you a single binary, fast startup, great stdlib, and goreleaser for proper distribution. Here's how to build real CLI tools.

PipeWire replaced PulseAudio and ALSA routing on every major distro. Here's the new audio stack, CLI tools, and how to fix the annoying stuff.

You don't need a GUI to see network packets. Learn tcpdump filters, flags, and pcap capture to debug servers from the command line, no Wireshark needed.

Learn how lazydocker and dive make Docker manageable from your terminal. TUI dashboards, image layer analysis, CI integration, and optimization tips.

DNS broke again. The command sequence that finds it: verify the resolver, reach a server, dig the record, trace the query path, check reverse lookups.

Master the curl flags that'll save you hours debugging APIs, downloads, and web requests. From -X to --compressed, here's what actually matters.

Bash heredocs and here strings explained: <<EOF for multiline input, <<-EOF for tab-indented blocks, <<<string for single lines, and when to use each.

Stop hoarding 50GB Blu-ray remuxes. Learn HandBrakeCLI, H.265/AV1 trade-offs, GPU encoding, and batch scripts that actually work.

GNU parallel runs tasks in parallel across CPU cores. It's faster than xargs and easier than writing a job queue. Here's when and how to use it.

jq is JSON on the command line. Here are 5 one-liners that actually solve real problems: filtering, extracting, transforming, combining, and debugging.

xargs and while read both loop over input, but they handle arguments, signals, and performance differently. Here's when to use each.

ss replaces netstat on modern Linux: faster, shows more socket detail, and reads from the kernel. Every netstat command you rely on, rewritten for ss.