Indispensible Unix Tools

The Basics

  • cat
  • bash
    • history
      ^R - reverse history search
      !command - last event starting with command
      command !$ !^ !* !!:n  - reuse previous commandline args
      
    • redirecting output
    • backquote
    • jobs
  • tail and colortail
  • grep
    grep -v "excluded text"
    grep "x\|u"
    
  • awk
  • wc
  • find
  • xargs
  • fortune
  • cowsay
  • cron
  • sort
  • less
  • tar/ gzip
  • mail
  • sed
  • vi
  • uniq
  • join
  • rsync
  • nohup
  • top, htop, kill, ps, killall, df, rn

Visualisation

  • the clipboard
  • dot
  • gnuplot
  • watch

Remoting

  • ssh
  • scp
  • screen
  • curl/ wget

Not so indispensible, but people might disagree…

  • emacs
  • rl – returning random lines from a stream
  • pandoc – converting documents

Comments

One response to “Indispensible Unix Tools”

  1. David Dossot Avatar

    What about ack? It’s really http://betterthangrep.com 🙂

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