[ale] Your Go-To CLI Tools?

[Ed Cashin]

One CLI tool that has been vanishing from default distro installations is
"ed".  The stream editor, sed, was based on ed, but I guess they forgot
about ed when they added the "-i" option to sed for in-place editing.
Editing in place is ed's domain.  It's especially nice in makefile rules.

  printf '1i\n// GENERATED from $< - DO NOT EDIT\n.\nwq\n' | ed $@

Another is my own bkp script:

  http://noserose.net/e/code/bkp

3. git
4. shred (overwrite files before deletion)
5. lsdiff (from patchutils)


On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:45 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> What are your top 5 "hidden" CLI tools?
>
> 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.
>
> 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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