CLI for Noobies: A Primer on the Linux Command Line

Chapter 37. Hack the Comment

I’m not talking about hacking an RFC (Request for Comment) here. I’m talking about a program called Comment that you can run on your own system. Comment is a free software program released under the BSD license that lets you enter and recall notes from the command line in the blink of an eye—or, if you type as slowly as I do, in several blinks.

The first thing you need to do is grab the program’s source code. It is located here:

http://www.pldaniels.com/comment/comment-0.1-dev .tar.gz

Once you’ve downloaded and decompressed the tarball, enter the comment.0.1-dev directory and run the make command. When make has finished, ...