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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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I think this is an interesting juxtaposition. I lessly the fonder of Google services because too often it seems things are centralised with the various Google Services. What I liked about Linux was it's decentralisation, that control was distributed to whomever had the capacity and the will to partake.
I don't suggest it's worthless that I can give content to Google from the command line, but that it seems to ideologically oppose one of the strengths of Linux. And artistic content is one area that is suffering from centralisation. Artistic content builds upon what came before it (I mention that because we're not all Lessig-educated), and copyright is increasingly centralising content to a small number of firms. Giving your content to Google isn't like giving your content to Disney, but it's submitting it to the control of a lessly interested party.
A single tool to do EVERYTHING?
It's like they don't even USE linux.
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....someone ought to write a GUI front end for it.
Make it web based at that.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/wiki/SystemRequirements
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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Except for actual, living pythons. To be fair, though, they are less a platform and more a series of tubes.
sudo $(googlecl imfeelinglucky malicious commands)
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.
Google updated Google Docs recently and I found that the new version didn't support some of the Gadgets that the old version did. I became quite concerned that the old and hackalicious python scripts I was using to upload CSV files that power my website's crime dashboards--something which would suck to have to recode.
I'm going to have to check this out and see if it works much in the same way like allowing me to just replace a Google Docs spreadsheet that already exists something which I require to keep my old code working.
Nice to see that they are continuing to make their commandline tools easier to use as I have to admit I was having some problems getting the ones I currently use to work but now that they are I certainly don't want to loose that functionality (I am good at using those scripts, just not coding new ones so any of the troll comments which say I should do it myself are not necessary, thanks :))
(Crap, hit 'submit' instead of 'preview') :-) I eventually just filtered him.
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.
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there's a good CLI for Windows: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/powershell.aspx
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If you're not familiar with google's api it's a pretty large time investment. Partially because of the size, but also because they're often not the most up to date. A lot of the doc api for example doesn't work with docs created under the system that's been up for a few months now. But that fact isn't listed anywhere in their documentation, or even very easy to find by searching because the error message is so generic and uninformative.
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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.
You said good. Lack of bash = not good.
... it'd be equally cool if they had a really open API and you could just use a script with curl to upload.
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Yeah, but Powershell is to shells like Esperanto is to languages.
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You've just invalidated your own point. I'm normally a sarcastic bastard when people do this but I've just had breakfast so I'll go easy on you.
I do use PS and BASH on a daily basis, I am a Linux and Exch 2007 sysadmin so I need to have an understanding of Powershell and BASH (PS is required for Exch 07). PS is trying to be a CLI for a GUI only environment the same as BASH is a CLI for a CLI environment. Both are meant to handle sysamin task and enable scripting. PS is trying to be BASH by centralising all admin and conf tasks, but PS fails because between different programs the syntax and commands are inconsistent and it's overly convoluted. Further more, PS is useless for MS SQL, realistically I only use PS to call SQLCMD.
Also on Server2008, PS is not installed by default. This is a major screw up if you're really trying to introduce a CLI.
I'm currently in the Philippines, breakfast here has a high chance of bricking in my digestive system.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
"Google Introduces Command-Line Tool For Linux"
is about as relevant as saying
"Google Introduces Command-Line Tool For Blue Computers" because blue is your favorite color. Sure, it'll run on blue computers, but it wasn't MADE FOR blue computers. Nor were these tools MADE FOR Linux. They'd have to be written as kernel modules to be made for Linux.
Anyhow, Linux isn't even an OS - it's a kernel. Just try to run Linux sometime without GNU and let me know how that works out for you.
Sure, so-called "tech journalists" think that every UNIX thing in the world is really a Linux thing, and sure, no "tech journalist" will ever properly call the OS GNU/Linux, but Slashdot? You people have to be a better example for everyone else.