"I just pulled up my man sox": comand line sound recording!

I really wanted to call this thread:
"I just pulled up my man sox", or, "How I Learned to stop worrying and use command line sound recording"
like a clever little parody of "Dr Strange Love, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb", with a dash of manpage humour.
couldnt resist not putting in the man gag. 

so, i installed "sox" after waking up ridiculously early, with an idea buzzing in my mind...  "do a search for command line sound recorder!", like some piece of subconscious genius after "sleeping on" all the drop out, latency, realtime issues that are sure to plague any other musician / sound engineer / audio designer.

and yeah, after just throwing the command sox to see what it alone would do, and getting some reasonably unhelpful help back, i moved to the next step... "man sox".

omigosh!  a useful manpage!      it does happen, and is always a welcome joy when it does.

i havnt tried recording with sox yet (let alone without xorg & all it's bugles blaring), but got so excited i thought i'd make this thread documenting the discovery.
I'm sure it will be just that extra smidgen more successful for recording our band sessions cleanly in their entirety so we dont miss those genius little unrepeatable bits that always seem to receive the inevitable "Oh Man! that was genius, lets get that down, hit record", then recording a shallow pathetic mockery of the original spark.