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by devenblake 1860 days ago
So you want UNIX utilities in the web? Really?

Honestly it sounds like a fun project idea: make a page that can do random little manipulations on text for you in JavaScript. But really you'd probably be better off just bringing up a terminal and running some imagemagick commands or echo "turn this into caps" | dd conv=ucase

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This goes beyond Unix utilities. If everything that's not performance concerned can run in the web, I want to use the browser as an application layer. This goes for phone and desktop.