System calls command line utilties for Linux and all POSIX based operating systems. Allows direct command line access to many popular kernel system calls in text format. Makes a great internals teaching tool for operating systems.
Smart Copy is a single-file Python app for batch execution (Ant-like) of commands. For example, SC can dump a SQL database, zip it and a source dir, and then send everything to an FTP site. Batch files are XML-based. See More >> Wiki for full details.