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."

sudo

[TheKidWho]

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

Cool, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Nerd RAGE!

[grasshoppa]

A single tool to do EVERYTHING?

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

Re:Cool, but...

[wiredlogic]

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

Make it web based at that.

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: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.

Works really well

[itamblyn]

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

Re:sudo

[somersault]

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

Re:yes, but...

[wolftone]

Emacs?

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" [e-mail]
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.

Re:sudo REWIND

[Josh04]

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.

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:yes, but...

[nxtw]

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?"

Re:google roullette is now complete

[_gladius_]

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

Re:The Lesser Controlled

[smallfries]

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

Re:sudo

[christian.ost]

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?