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

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. We have in person meetings at The Innovation Hub and we use Discord for a live feed of the meetings, using the General voice channel at https://discord.gg/9SgTh3T

http://d8ndl.org