Indispensible Unix Tools
The Basics
- cat
- bash
- history
- redirecting output
- backquote
- jobs
- tail
- grep
grep -v "excluded text" grep "x\|u"
- awk
- wc
- find
- xargs
- fortune
- cowsay
- cron
- sed
- vi
- uniq
- rsync
- nohup
- top, htop, kill, ps, killall, df, rn
Visualisation
- the clipboard
- dot
- gnuplot
Remoting
- ssh
- scp
- screen
- curl/ wget
Not so indispensible, but people might disagree…
- emacs
What about ack? It’s really http://betterthangrep.com :)