Tag: command line

eDEX-UI – a sci-fi terminal

eDEX-UI is a science fiction terminal that runs on most operating systems. It was heavily inspired by the user interfaces in sci-fi movies, like TRON, Minority Report, and others. While it’s not very practical for the day-to-day use for anyone heavily using command line, it’s a lot of fun to run when there are non-technical people around, staring at your screen.

The installation is pretty simple:

git clone https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui.git
cd edex-ui
npm run install-linux
npm start

I think it works even better with a large touch screen, but I don’t have one around to try it on.

SSH Examples, Tips & Tunnels

“SSH Examples, Tips & Tunnels” is a nice collection of tips and examples for Secure Shell (ssh) users. It covers a variety of scenarios from simple remote connections, to file copying, to tunnels and jump hosts.

The Book of Secret Knowledge

“The Book of Secret Knowledge” is a collection of awesome lists, manuals, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more.  It is intended for everyone and anyone – especially for System and Network Administrators, DevOps, Pentesters or Security Researchers.

While you are at it, also have a look at:

Bash parameter expansion

If you’ve ever written a bash script with variables, and know that it wasn’t your last one,  I promise you, you’ll love this wiki page.  It covers a whole lot of different ways to expand and manipulate variable values in bash, all on a single, conveniently organized page.

jq: deep comparison of 5GB files

I’ve blogged about jq – a lightweight and flexible command line JSON processor – a few times already (look here and here).  Today I came across this blog post that showcases jq in deep comparison of really large JSON files (5 GB or so).  This is not something that I need on a daily basis, but I’m sure it’ll come in handy one day.