Small, Sharp Software Tools

Chapter 10Additional Programs

You’ve used a lot of general-purpose tools so far; you can manage files, manipulate streams of text, and communicate over the Internet all through the CLI. You’ve learned how much you can speed up your workflow using these kinds of tools, but that’s just the beginning. In this chapter, you’ll install some additional programs that will let you get even more done, leveraging the concepts you’ve already learned. You’ll do some document conversion and file management, add a tool to make managing environment variables easier, and then work with web-based APIs from the command line.

Some of the tools in this chapter require that you have the Python interpreter installed, along with pip, Python’s package manager. macOS ...