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A Computer console, a physical device to operate a computer (Wikipedia Computer_console ). On linux, there are often multiple Virtual_Console (Alt-F1 to Alt-F6).

How to survive on the linux console

The usual shell commands are listed in coreutils.

This section lists a selection of useful and popular programs that run from the shell.

Generic tools

• screen -- virtual tty that allow disconnection (for ssh or X-terminal)

• script -- for logging of a console session

• mlocate -- assist finding files

• File manager: mc

• Editors

  • nano -- very small, very simple, very easy to use text editor

  • vim and vim-tiny -- The Vi like editor.

  • emacs

  • joe -- can emulate WordStar keybindings (jstar)

• Shells

  • bash

  • tcsh

  • zsh

• locking the console

  • vlock

• Misc

  • dict

  • linuxvnc to export console (VNC)

Communication / Internet

• Download

  • wget

  • curl

• mail

  • mutt -- all mail clients suck - this one sucks less

• WWW

  • w3m

  • lynx

  • links

  • elinks

• news

  • slrn --

  • tin --

  • etpan-ng --

• IRC

  • irssi

• ICQ

  • licq

  • bitlbee -- ICQ to IRC gateway

• RSS

  • snownews -- Console RSS/RDF aggregator

  • rsstail -- tail RSS feeds

  • rss2email -- RSS/RDF to mail converter

  • newsbeuter -- text mode rss feed reader with podcast support

Multimedia

• mixer

  • alsamixer

  • aumix

• sound

  • ogg123

  • mpg321

  • cplay

  • mp3blaster

  • cdcd

  • id3ed

  • mpc, ncmpc (mpd)

• graphic conversion and manipulation

  • aview

  • imagemagick

  • netpbm

• graphic viewers

  • zgv which requires svgalib, so it only runs on some arches

  • fbi which doesn't require svgalib and includes fbgs (a ghostscript frontend)

• video

  • mplayer (mplayer -vo caca MyFile.mpg or mplayer -vo aa MyFile.mpg)

PIM

• todo list

  • tdl

  • hnb -- hierarchical notebook

• calendar tools

  • pal

  • ccal

  • gcal

• address books

  • lbdb

  • bbdb

  • abook

Office

• spreadsheet

  • sc

  • slsc

• Word processing

  • odt2txt (view openoffice document, see mc above)

"graphic" editors

• filet

• aewan

• tetradraw

System Administration

• top -- list whats runing and resource usage

• ngrep -- Show network connections

• apachetop -- Show active Apache details.

• aptitude -- manage debian packages.

• ssh -- Remote system interaction (replaces deprecated "r" commands, telnet, ftp).

Fun

• fortune

• sl

• bb

• filters -- B1FF, Swedish Chef, ...

• cmatrix

• CleanMe : This page needs some cleanup, and needs to be improved (hint: focus on most useful tools)

• SyncMe : Need to import french version