Google Introduces Command-Line Tool For Linux

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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sudo

[TheKidWho]

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

Re:sudo

[Quarters]

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.

Re:sudo

[Tumbleweed]

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.

Re:Cool, but...

[wiredlogic]

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

Make it web based at that.

Re:Not just for Linux

[Bottles]

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

I wrote a Google CLI tool once

[sootman]

(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.