DDL: command line tools, tips, and tricks

# December 2025: Command Line Tips, Tricks, and Tools

”$ “, says your screen. Now what?

Have you ever seen another programmer tapping away at their command line, said “WAIT! What’s that you just did?”, and learned by serendipity about a useful technique? Let’s try to make a bunch of those delightful discoveries happen in one meeting. Think tips, tricks, tools, and so forth.

This is a stone-soup-style, bring-your-own-brain meeting; instead of a single presenter, we’ll all share little morsels of knowledge. Try to think in advance about what you have to bring to the table! It can be for *nix, Windows, or both.

## Location: Innovation Hub

We meet in the Innovation Hub, a gorgeous new facility that’s part of the renovated Dayton Arcade complex. Enter through the doors that face the Wright Stop Plaza bus hub.
Street parking is free in the evening. I usually park on Ludlow Street.
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if for any reason coming downtown doesn’t work for you (for instance, you’ve been exposed to COVID, or you’ve converted yourself to purely digital format and now exist as a set of cloud-hosted algorithms), we’ll be online as well!

Join us at 7 PM EDT on the PyFri Discord channel, discord.gg/9SgTh3T, and click on the General voice chat link. You may need to install the Discord desktop app rather than just using the web interface.

DDL is dedicated to discussion of technology and techniques related to dynamic programming languages: Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, and sometimes something more exotic! These languages are fun and easy to get started with, yet powerful enough for all manner of professional use, and our members span the full range of experience with them.

We always leave time for general conversation and questions. Come try one of the most interactive groups around!

The Dayton Dynamic Languages User Group meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 7 to 9 PM, online and at Dayton's Innovation Hub (part of the renovated Arcade conmples). Use the General voice channel at discord.gg/9SgTh3T

We are a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Dayton Microcomputer Association. http://d8ndl.org