Google Introduces Command-Line Tool For Linux 210
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."
yes, but... (Score:3, Insightful)
...does it run anything besides linux?
a tool like this would rule for any platform.
i guess you could just roll your own python script or something.
Re:yes, but... (Score:2, Insightful)
...does it run anything besides linux?
Is there something people want to run besides Linux?
Re:yes, but... (Score:0, Insightful)
but what is this "Windows" you keep referring to ?
Re:namespacing (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.
Re:yes, but... (Score:5, 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.
Re:Thank you! (Score:2, Insightful)
Err I was concerned they wouldn't work when Google switched to the full on new version. I need a beer.
Re:Not just for Linux (Score:2, Insightful)
So, basically it runs on everything except the ZX81 [wikipedia.org] and the iPhone
Re:yes, but... (Score:5, Insightful)
there's a good CLI for Windows: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/powershell.aspx [microsoft.com]
Re:Not just for Linux (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:yes, but... (Score:2, Insightful)
...does it run anything besides linux?
Is there something people want to run besides Linux?
And is anyone unable to run Linux?
No, seriously. Install VirtualBox [virtualbox.org] on your Windows system or whatever, throw Xubuntu [xubuntu.org] on a virtual machine, do whatever you want. The software doesn't cost a dime, you can do it with the hardware you have, and it's not even that difficult for a person of moderate geekiness. Okay, so it takes a lot of hard drive space, but gone are the days when you need to go drop a few hundred dollars on another computer or futz around with dual-booting and accidentally trash your MBR if you want a Linux system in addition to your current setup.
Re:yes, but... (Score:5, Insightful)
You said good. Lack of bash = not good.
Re:sudo (Score:3, Insightful)
cut-rate '70's era NASA space station
Make a joke, fine, make a point, even better, but you should be old enough to remember SkyLab kicked ass, you insensitive clod!
Re:yes, but... (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah, but Powershell is to shells like Esperanto is to languages.
Re:yes, but... (Score:3, Insightful)