{"id":221,"date":"2010-09-25T10:41:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/?p=221"},"modified":"2011-02-06T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T23:41:24","slug":"using-python-to-create-command-line-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/2010\/09\/25\/using-python-to-create-command-line-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Python to create command line tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was directed to a nifty tutorial regarding Python&#8217;s optparse, and how to use it to quickly create handy command-line utilities.\u00a0\u00a0 Saves you the trouble of ever having to parse the command line.\u00a0 Check it out on IBM&#8217;s website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/aix\/library\/au-pythocli\/\">http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/aix\/library\/au-pythocli\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary taken from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Summary:<\/strong> If you work in IT, as a UNIX\u00ae Sysadmin, a software developer, or even a manager,  there a few skills that will set you apart from the crowd. Do you fully understand the  OSI model? Are you comfortable with subnetting? Do you understand UNIX  permissions? Let me add to this list the humble command line tool. By the end of this  article, anyone involved in IT at any capacity should be able to create at least a  simple command line tool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was directed to a nifty tutorial regarding Python&#8217;s optparse, and how to use it to quickly create handy command-line utilities.\u00a0\u00a0 Saves you the trouble of ever having to parse the command line.\u00a0 Check it out on IBM&#8217;s website: http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/aix\/library\/au-pythocli\/ Summary taken from the article: Summary: If you work in IT, as a UNIX\u00ae Sysadmin, a&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/2010\/09\/25\/using-python-to-create-command-line-tools\/\" title=\"ReadUsing Python to create command line tools\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3999],"tags":[4001,4000],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-outside_tutorials","tag-python"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}