Google Brings Back The Command Line

I'll admit I'm a command line (aka terminal) fan. When I first started using Linux it was unavoidable (giving you an idea of how long ago that was), but instead of freaking out I instantly fell in love. There's nothing like the complete, utter power you feel, for lack of a better word, when controlling things via terminal. Alas, I recognize however that this is a dying art.

Until yesterday, when Google announced YOU CAN NOW CONTROL YOUR BLOGGER, GOOGLE CALENDAR, GOOGLE CONTACTS, GOOGLE DOCS, PICASA and YOUTUBE accounts VIA COMMAND LINE.

Let me just say, AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME.

The manual is here, ftg. commands such as:

Blogger

• delete: Delete posts. delete --title "Silly post number [0-9]*"
• list: List posts. list title,url-site
• post: Upload posts. post --tags "GoogleCL, awesome" "Here's a really short post. The next posts will be much longer!" ~/blog/2010/may/*
• tag: Label posts tag --title "Dev post" --tags "Python, software"

and

Calendar

• add: Add event to calendar. The text you use is treated as if it were entered using the Quick Add feature of Google Calendar. add "Dinner party with George tomorrow at 6pm"
• delete: Delete an event. delete --cal "GoogleCL dev cal" --title "Release.*"
• list: List events. Omitting --date is equivalent to --date today,tomorrow. list --date 2010-06-01,2010-06-30
• today: List events for the next 24 hours. today

I still maintain an ancient PC running Ubuntu in terminal mode, whose main and only purpose in life is to download torrents (for *ehem* study). I tried installing the Debian packages but realized I need Python 6. Unfortunately, I've only got the 2.4 version, and I'm so rusty with my command line skillz it's taking me awhile to update it:

But as usual with these things, you just keep hacking away and sooner or later you'll eventually get it.

Can't wait to try it out. There've been comments good and bad here and there, including an intriguing one at Ubuntu Forums I wanna investigate.

I swear this has got me pumped. The geek meter on this thing is off the charts.

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