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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. Re:namespacing by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    organized into separate modules, but called as "google subcommand" so that you can still have a command called "picassa" and "blogger" and "search"... sounds good to me.

    "do one thing, do it well" doesn't mean "make a thousand poorly-named tools and clutter /usr/bin"

    "google foo" does one thing, does it well.
    "google bar" does one thing, does it well.
    "google" does one thing, does it well (passes commands to a dispatcher)

    you're basically complaining about seeing a space where you pointlessly want a hyphen.

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  2. Re:yes, but... by SwedishPenguin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well apparently it's just a python script, so it is available for Windows. Though the last time I tried to use python from the CLI (what little there is) in Windows was a really big hassle, and I ended up just going for an unofficial prepackaged installer for that particular application which bundled Cygwin.

  3. Re:yes, but... by obarthelemy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    there's a good CLI for Windows: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/powershell.aspx

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  4. Re:yes, but... by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You said good. Lack of bash = not good.