Command-line hacking
Command-line hacking: a really simple console music player (Feb 2026)Select a directory from a list, and play all the music files in that directory. How difficult can that be?
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Command-line hacking: Downloading a podcast to create an audiobook (Jan 2026)If a podcast has an RSS feed, we can download it, parse it, and then download all the content into a single folder, which can then be played by any audio player.
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Command-line hacking: countdown timer (Mar 2024)Using Linux date calculations to displaying a running countdown time in the terminal.
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Command-line hacking: calculating the phase of the Moon (Jan 2024)How to use Bash shell arithmetic, along with the 'date' utilty, to calculate the phase of the Moon on a particlar day.
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Command-line hacking: displaying system temperature (Sep 2023)Using simple file and string handling techniques in the Bash shell.
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Command-line hacking: timezone conversions (Aug 2022)Using 'date' and 'timedatectl' to build a utility to help with scheduling meetings in different timezones.
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Command-line hacking: displaying a weather summary (Aug 2022)How to use tools like curl, sed, and groff to retrieve a weather forecast from the BBC, and format it for the terminal.
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Command-line hacking: creating a tide table (Aug 2022)How to use Bash shell arithmetic to create a simple tide table
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Command-line hacking: extracting audio metadata (tags) (Aug 2022)How to use Bash shell techniques to extract metadata (tags) from various audio file formats.
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Command-line hacking: querying an Internet radio database (Aug 2022)Using Linux command-line utilities to query an on-line database of Internet radio stations.
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Command-line hacking: paced breathing (Aug 2022)Using a Linux Bash script to generate audio/visual cues for timing paced breathing exercises.
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Command-line hacking: displaying news headlines in the manual viewer (Aug 2022)How to use tools like curl and xsltproc to retrieve news headlines from the BBC, and display them using the manual viewer
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Command-line hacking: Assigning folder icons to directories (Aug 2022)How to use basic Bash constructs, along with the Gnome gio utility, to assign folder icons to a set of directories.
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