We're looking for some good alpha testers, if your interested please fill out the form here. We really want to hear your thoughts on the service.

Other updates

The signup and login process as been reworked to use the ClickPass service. The guy's at ClickPass have been great to work with, and we think this service will really help people signup without needing to create a new username password on yet another site.

We've also made some back end changes that are not really visible but should help with stability and reliability.

Checkout the CloudSH.com application in Facebook here. If you have a CloudSH.com account and you setup Facebook in CloudSH.com (Type h fb on the command line to find out how) you will have command line access from within Facebook! It will even auto login for you. Get an account!

Five new commands went live recently, here's a brief description of each.

GetContent - Gets the content of a URL. Can be called as `get` or `cat`.

AsXml, AsJson - takes a string of text and converts it into a XML or JSON object.

ToXml - Takes a JSON string or object and converts it to XML.

ToJson - Takes a XML string or object and converts it to JSON.

Example:

get "http://www.cloudsh.com" | asxml | tojson

The above will get the HTML text from CloudSH.com as XML then converts it to JSON.

These are not too exciting my themselves, but as more commands and output options are created, these should become much more useful. Please leave  feedback and suggestions at http://feedback.cloudsh.com.

Today we released two new features which really increase the usefulness of CloudSH.com.

Command Pipelines

Pipelines allow the output of a command to be passed as arguments to the next command. For example you could pass the output of recent delicious posts to the echo command and only echo the HREF like this: 

del/recent | echo $$.href

Resulting in a list of links. The pipe (|) is what enables this. The $$ is a reference to the object being passed to the command. Get more detailed help by typing GetPipelineHelp on the command line.

Output Redirection

This allows you to redirect the output of a command. Right now you can use the emailme target to send the command output to your email. More targets will be coming soon. Output redirection is the last part of a command sequence. We can add a redirect to the command above to have the results sent to our email like this:

del/recent | echo $$.href > emailme

To get more detailed help and see what targets are currently available type GetRedirectionHelp on the command line.

We hope you find these useful and send us all your feedback and requests!