Cross-Platform Command Line Tools

In the last post I wrote about a small command line utility for registering hours spent on different tasks. I never got to showing how to write to text files in Python, so let's get down to it now (what's better to do a Saturday evening than hacking...

You all know them and use them; command line tools with arguments. Especially on linux, this is the way things go, but also in Windows. Think about the dos command dir, and its attributes;
dir /p: list directory one screen full at the time
dir /w: list directory in columns,...

If you'd like to make your scripts run by typing
myscript args
instead of

There are many programs that run in console environments. They are more often seen on Linux than other systems, but that doesn't mean they are not useful on Windows. My *nix favorite console programs are
alpine: e-mail client for the console (easy to use and with a ton of features)...