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Resource: Command Line Bootcamp – The Praxis Program

The transition to interacting with your computer on the command line can be a little jarring at first if you’re accustomed to working in an environment dominated by windows, cursors, buttons, and other GUI pleasantries. Really, though, these graphical features are often just façades for functionality that can be achieved with more flexibility and speed […]

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Resource: Writing a Simple Web Spider Using Command Line Tools in Linux

A spider (or ‘crawler’ or ‘bot’) is a program that downloads a page from the Internet, saves some or all of the content, extracts links to other webpages, then retrieves and processes those in turn…Here we will develop a surprisingly simple Bash script to explore and visualize a tiny region of the WorldCat Identities database. […]