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Google Introduces Command-Line Tool For Linux

Posted by timothy on from the google-reaches-the-beginning dept.

Lomegor writes "'Ever wanted to upload a folder full of photos to Picasa from a command prompt?' Google introduced today a new project, Google CL, that lets you do that and much more. It's a new command line tool for Linux that acts as an interface with Google services; you can upload videos to YouTube or maybe post a new blog post in Blogger in just one line."

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  1. sudo by TheKidWho · · Score: 5, Funny

    sudo google Skylab -activate -w -terminate "Humans"

    1. Re:sudo by Quarters · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm unclear as to how a defunct and destroyed cut-rate '70's era NASA space station that was built out of Atlas rocket parts would have either a web server or the ability to annihilate humanity.

    2. Re:sudo by somersault · · Score: 3, Funny

      Me either, but this thing is burning up my village as we spe

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    3. Re:sudo by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, it did rain debris all over Australia. So it's really just a question of accuracy.

      Pfft, Australia. Like that's a REAL place. Everyone knows that was just a made-up place for those Crocodile Dundee movies. And then the Simpsons did a great take on it. It was a great joke back in the day, but you guys need to let it go already.

    4. Re:sudo by christian.ost · · Score: 2, Funny

      Every goddamned program out there is capable of annihilating humanity and no matter who designed it, the error is inevitably going to be blamed on you until you fix it.

      by whom?

  2. Cool, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ....someone ought to write a GUI front end for it.

    1. Re:Cool, but... by wiredlogic · · Score: 5, Funny

      ....someone ought to write a GUI front end for it.

      Make it web based at that.

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  3. Nerd RAGE! by grasshoppa · · Score: 3, Funny

    A single tool to do EVERYTHING?

    It's like they don't even USE linux.

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  4. Re:Not just for Linux by Bottles · · Score: 5, Funny

    Except for actual, living pythons. To be fair, though, they are less a platform and more a series of tubes.

  5. Works really well by itamblyn · · Score: 2, Funny

    For anyone that spends a lot of time on the command line, this is pretty huge.

  6. Re:yes, but... by wolftone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Emacs?

  7. I wrote a Google CLI tool once by sootman · · Score: 4, Funny

    (Crap, hit 'submit' instead of 'preview')
    I used to be on a list and this one guy would always post the worst questions--the kind of stuff where you could google the subject line of his email and get the answer. So I wrote...
    #!/bin/bash
    lynx -dump google.com/search?q=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5 | mail -s "Automated response" list@example.com
    What I really wanted was for the list admin to put a filter on the server that would automatically take his messages and do that to them. Of course I never actually used it. :-) I eventually just filtered him.

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  8. Re:sudo REWIND by Josh04 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm unclear as to how a defunct and destroyed cut-rate '70's era British Armed Forces Comms satellite that never made it out of geostationary orbit would have either a web server or the ability to annihilate humanity.

  9. Re:yes, but... by nxtw · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't get it - what is this supposed to mean?

    • Do you think I'm a German? I'm not, although I do have significant German ancestry.
    • Do you think I'm a Serbian? I'm not.
    • Do you think I have some interest in the German national team? I don't.
    • Do you think I have some interest in the Serbian national team? I don't.
    • Do you think I have some interest in the World Cup as a whole? The only match I've watched in full was last Saturday's between ENG and USA; I haven't even turned on a TV to display a GER match in the background.
    • Do you think I understand German? I identified "nicht" and "war" as words in the German language, but I couldn't recall the meaning of the phrase "nicht war". It's not great that I couldn't figure it out without computer translation, but it's ultimately insignificant. To quote the postmodern philosopher Jules Winnfield: "English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?"
  10. Re:google roullette is now complete by shiftless · · Score: 2, Funny

    i type this in my console an it formmated my hard drive u dick

  11. Re:The Lesser Controlled by smallfries · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well you already seem to be using Google Translate to put your posts into english.

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