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Avatar Image   Started by rootneg2 rootneg2 has 4,731 Grupie Points 1 year ago         Comments 1 Comment

What is your favorite text-only, non-gui command line tool?

Not shells or terminal emulators themselves, just commands and utilities (cd, ls, grep, ftp, ssh, ...)

Tags: command line, linux, technology, test

 
       
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SSH

Leader! Most 1st Place Votes
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16  votes
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Wget

Download a file at an address without having to launch a heavy browser.

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12  votes
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9  votes
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Sed + awk + grep

Perl is too disgusting and hideous.

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7  votes
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Cowsay

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6  votes
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Less

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5  votes
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Pipes and redirections

They have no name, but are built into the shell to facilitate gluing commands and passing I/O from program to program: in 'sh': <... [show more]

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Man

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4  votes
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Htop

I like to think of it as "happy top", since it makes me happier than "top".

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4  votes
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Find

Handy, and helps me find teh pr0n.

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4  votes
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Make

For automatic, dependency-based task execution and parallelization.

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4  votes
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Locate

In my point of view is a command line google desktop tool

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3  votes
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Nano

An intuitive text editor

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3  votes
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Wavemon

The perfect tool to tweak your wireless connection

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3  votes
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Rsync

remember to back up :)

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3  votes
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Xargs

Turns lists into arguments passed to other commands.

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3  votes
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Pstree

Gives hierarchical tree-view of all processes.

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3  votes
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Head / tail

gives the first / last few lines of stdin or a file

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Tee

Copy a pipe to both file and stdout.

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2  votes
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Tr

tr (translate characters) e.g.: echo "ABCDefgh" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"... [show more]

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2  votes
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Diff + patch

Identify file differences. Difference summaries can be saved as patches and applied elsewhere, forward or backward patching.... [show more]

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Perl

I've resorted to using perl -e '...' on the command line in place of sed/awk/grep. It does make for some long and unreadable comma... [show more]

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1  votes
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Cvs

or any concurrent version control system, RCS, SVN...

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1  votes
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Sort

Sorts lines of text (you can specify key extraction/type)

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Pico

Don't know how i forgot this one (thanks bloodniece). It's my favorite little text editor; even named my laptop after it.

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Info

info pages, like man pages, but more navigable.

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Rm -rf /

How can anyone not love this :-)

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Cut / paste

For column-based text-snatching.

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bloodniece 1 year ago

less, pico, nano, ps aux, grep, ls -a, ifconfig,
dig, cat

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This topic was started by rootneg2 rootneg2 has 4,731 Grupie Points on December 8th, 2006. 33 grupies have voted on one or more of the 29 answers.

Tags: command line, linux, technology, test

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