[ale] Your Go-To CLI Tools?

Charles Shapiro hooterpincher at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 09:27:49 EST 2014


screen(1) -- multiple terminals in a single terminal session
sox(1) -- the Swiss Army Knife of sound tools
cdparanoia(1) -- the best CD ripper I've used so far


-- CHS


On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 9:09 AM, chip <chip.gwyn at gmail.com> wrote:

> htop - better version of top for cpu, memory, processes, etc.
> iotop - same as a hove but for io stuffs
> mtr - better traceroute
> tmux - better version of screen (imho)
> script - record a terminal session (good for logging activities via ssh or
> whatever)
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> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:45 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
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>> What are your top 5 "hidden" CLI tools?
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>> Let's skip the ones we all agree should be used almost daily: ssh, sudo,
>> rsync,
>> ddrescue, screen, vi, egrep, etc ... definitely no GUI tools.
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>> Think about the things you have to add-on to any distro to make it more
>> useful.
>> Check your history to find some and share.
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