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Life & fun · April 17, 2015

Butler – a tool for people too lazy to remeber long shell commands

Butler – a tool for people too lazy to remeber long shell commands launched on April 17, 2015 with 5 votes, #1,583 of 3,600 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

I am a supremely lazy person. With the rise of wrappers like virtualenv , bundler , foreman , etc, I find the shell commands I need to remember getting really long. Things like: I figure someone else should be remembering those for me. Ideally I should only need to remember migrate to migrate the db and unit to run the unit tests. The Butler is a small command line tool for reducing the number of keystrokes I need to make while working. Since running commands from a file isn’t entirely safe, especially if teams use Butler together, you’ll want to be certain that the command is safe. To do this Butler will show you the script and ask if it’s ok to run the first time. Any time the script, or…from michaelallen.io

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