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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Work

Display Your Public IP Address In The Shell Prompt

5:00AM The How-To Geek | Linux, Mac, or Windows with Cygwin: If you’ve ever needed to display your public IP address, or wanted to add it to your customised desktop with Geektool, a simple command has you covered. More »
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
Organise

Integrate Launchy With Wget

8:00AM Adam Pash | Reader Justin writes in with a clever idea for quickly launching downloads with the popular command-line download manager, wget. His method: Make wget available to Launchy, then pass the URL of the file you want to download to wget through Launchy. Here’s how it works: More »
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Saturday, February 9, 2008

Get GNU Tools on Windows with UnixUtils

3:30AM Gina Trapani | Windows only: So you keep typing ls at the Windows command line instead of dir? Miss grep, wget, and tar on your PC? The open source UnixUtils project offers ports of “the most important” GNU command line utilities, including those listed as well as over 100 others. Usually we recommend using the Unix emulator Cygwin to get *nix command line goodness in Windows, but UnixUtils doesn’t depend on the whole Cygwin layer to run—they’re tried and true Windows executables. UnixUtils is a free download for Windows only. Thanks, Vijay! UnixUtils [SourceForge] More »
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