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Inspired by a similar post by Ben Boyter this a list of useful command line tools that I use. It’s not a list of every tool I use. These are tools that are new or typically not part of a standard POSIX command line environment. This post is a living document and will be updated over time. It should be obvious that I have a strong preference for fast tools without a large runtime dependency like Py

For a node.js project I’m working on I wanted to generate a Sphinx xmlpipe2 data stream. The options for generating XML with node.js seemed a bit limited. The main contender appeared to be libmljs but it segfaulted whenever I tried to use it. So with previous experience using Tim Bray’s Genx C library I decided to write bindings for node. The result is node-genx, which is available via npm. npm in

Update 4 Aug 2010: See revised post: How to Install Consolas on Mac OS X With the introduction of Windows Vista and Office 2007 Microsoft included some new fonts, which became the defaults in Office. Their names all start with ‘C’ and they are quite attractive. In particular there is a monospaced font called Consolas that is nice to use as a text editor font and Terminal font. The problem is they