Are there any scripting / cli-compatible languages which decently provide or at least pretend to provide bit-math? [more inside]
posted by tmcw on Sep 27, 2008 - 7 answers

Why isn't GNU uniq 6.12 working as I expect? [more inside]
posted by Blazecock Pileon on Jul 17, 2008 - 3 answers

Unix folk: I'd like to reformat a long text file in a very specific manner using command line tools. [more inside]
posted by aiko on Apr 1, 2008 - 13 answers

Why does my Mac appear to have other people's computer names at the command line? What's up here? [more inside]
posted by Happy Dave on Nov 12, 2007 - 8 answers

How do I get bash to automagically execute a line or two of code at login? [more inside]
posted by nakedcodemonkey on Oct 22, 2007 - 25 answers

For UNIX-like systems (Linux, BSD, Solaris) is there a way to determine power supply type remotely, preferably with a simple command-line tool? [more inside]
posted by littlegreenlights on May 30, 2007 - 5 answers

I have a bunch of directories of pictures across multiple disks. Many images are duplicated. Additionally, I had to use some disk recovery software to rescue other images and the filenames changed. At the moment, I can't guarantee that all of the filenames are unique. I'd like to weed out the duplicates and then ultimately consolidate everything into iPhoto. I'm talking close to 20,000 pictures. [more inside]
posted by neilkod on Jan 25, 2007 - 13 answers

Is there any way to get the duration of a RealAudio/RealVideo stream using a command line tool (i.e. without having to launch RealPlayer)? In a perfect world, I'd like to pipe a list of RealAudio/Video links and get back a text list with the time lengths of each file. At all possible?
posted by gwint on Jan 14, 2007 - 1 answer

Is there any way to access one's OS X Keychain via the command line? [more inside]
posted by action man bow-tie on Oct 17, 2006 - 4 answers

What are some books and resources that can help a Windows expert make the transition to Linux for good? [more inside]
posted by sprocket87 on Jul 7, 2006 - 13 answers