Setting Proxy Environment in UNIX

The easiest and best way to set proxy information on your Linux/Unix machine is with the http_proxy environment variable in your ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, or whatever your favorite shell’s configuration file is.  Set it like this: http://user:password@proxy-server:portnum In my brief bit of experimentation, the follow important (to me, at least) command-line tools use http_proxy: wget Python easy_install curl I’ve been a Unix user for 14... Read More

Tweeting from the command-line

As you can see on the sidebar, I use Twitter.  I think it’s cool but I know that it took me a while to “get it” and I know many people who still don’t get it.  But I can’t explain what “it” is. I tweet pretty much from the command line.  A simple google search will help you figure it out, but for the impatient, I do: curl --basic --user username:passwd --data status="my update" \ http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml Of... Read More