Hide

What's this?

commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again.

Delete that bloated snippets file you've been using and share your personal repository with the world. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.

If you have a new feature suggestion or find a bug, please get in touch via http://commandlinefu.uservoice.com/

Get involved!

You can sign-in using OpenID credentials, or register a traditional username and password.

OpenID
or
Sign in Register

First-time OpenID users will be automatically assigned a username which can be changed after signing in.

World cup college
Hide

Stay in the loop…

Follow the Tweets.

Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted to Twitter. Following the stream is a great way of staying abreast of the latest commands. For the more discerning, there are Twitter accounts for commands that get a minimum of 3 and 10 votes - that way only the great commands get tweeted.

» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu3
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu10

Subscribe to the feeds.

Use your favourite RSS aggregator to stay in touch with the latest commands. There are feeds mirroring the 3 Twitter streams as well as for virtually every other subset (users, tags, functions,…):

Subscribe to the feed for:

Hide

News

2010-03-18 - Top 10 commands explained
There's a great article by Peteris Krumins explaining the current top 10 commands: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-ten-one-liners-from-commandlinefu-explained/
2010-03-03 - Commandlinefu @ SXSW 2010
Am going to be at SXSW this year, in case you want to submit any CLI nuggets or suggestions to me in person. Ping me on the @codeinthehole Twitter account.
2009-09-12 - Email updates now available
You can now enable email updates to let you know each time you're command is commented on.
2009-07-11 - API and javascript blog widget now available
A simple API has been released, allowing commands to be retrieved in various formats. This also allows commands to be embedded on blogs/homepages.
Hide

Tags

Hide

Functions

Hide

Credits

Site by David Winterbottom (user root).

Simulate typing

Terminal - Simulate typing
echo "You can simulate on-screen typing just like in the movies" | pv -qL 10
2010-01-14 20:17:44
User: dennisw
Functions: echo
48
Up
Down
Simulate typing

This will output the characters at 10 per second.

Add to favourites | Report as malicious

Alternatives

There is 1 alternative - vote for the best!

Terminal - Alternatives
echo "pretty realistic virtual typing" | randtype -m 4
2010-02-25 15:30:28
User: tehdog
Functions: echo
Tags: Ubuntu movie on-screen typing
-3
Up
Down
Simulate typing

this also generates errors (change 4 to higher number for more mistakes)

Comments (0) | Add to favourites | Report as malicious

Know a better way?

If you can do better, submit your command here.

What others think

I've done this with cstream, but you've got a working solution there as well

Comment by linuxrawkstar 32 weeks and 6 days ago

I wrote something like this a while back using only bash. It's fun to pipe dmesg to it:

dmesg|while read x;do for((i=0;i<${#x};i++));do echo -n "${x:$i:1}";sleep .06;done;echo;done
Comment by eightmillion 32 weeks and 6 days ago

Funny !

Comment by CodSpirit 32 weeks and 6 days ago

Ha! I like fun stuff like this.

Comment by Chokkan 32 weeks and 6 days ago

Something to add to a .bashrc for a bit 'o fun.

Comment by bubnoff 22 weeks and 6 days ago

Your point of view

You must be signed in to comment.

Related sites and podcasts