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= See also = * http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Utilities/Console/ |
["Bash"]
How to survive on the linux console
This section shall describe
- which generic tools exist
- what their homepage is
- maybe their status on Debian (entered stable, testing, unstable)?
- a short introduction in what the tools do and how to use them effectively.
Generic tools
- ["screen"] -- virtual tty multiplexer
- ["script"] -- for logging of a console session
- ["find"], ["locate"] -- assist finding files
- ["cut"], ["paste"], ["uniq"], ["sort"], ["sed"], ["awk"], ["perl"], ["python"]
- File managers
- editors
- Shells
- ["bash"]
- ["zsh"]
- Databases
- ["MySQL"]
- ["Postgres"]
- ansi graphic editors
- ["aewan"]
- ["tetradraw"]
- fun
- ["fortune"]
- ["sl"]
- ["bb"]
- ["filters"] -- B1FF, Swedish Chef, ...
- locking
- ["vlock"]
- ["cmatrix"]
- Misc
- ["dict"]
- ["getty"]
Communication / Internet
- news
- ["slrn"] --
- ["tin"] --
- ["etpan-ng"] --
- mail
- ["mutt"] -- all mail clients suck - this one sucks less
- ["etpan-ng"] --
- IRC
- ["ircII"], ["EPIC"]
- ["irssi"]
- ICQ
- ["licq"]
- ["micq"]
- ["bitlbee"] -- ICQ to IRC gateway
- ["centericq"]
- WWW
- ["lynx"]
- ["links"]
- ["elinks"]
- ["w3m"]
- ["netrik"]
- ["surfraw"]
- ["wget"]
- ["curl"]
- ["snownews"] -- Console RSS/RDF aggregator
- ["rss2email"] -- RSS/RDF to mail converter
raggle -- RSS/Atom reader
Multimedia
- mixer
- ["aumix"]
- ["alsamixer"]
- sound
- ["ogg123"]
- ["mpg321"]
- ["cplay"]
- ["mp3blaster"]
- ["cdcd"]
- ["id3ed"]
- ["mpc"], ["ncmpc"] (["mpd"])
- graphic conversion and manipulation
- ["aview"]
- ["convert"]
- ["resize"]
- ["imgsize"]
- [netpbm tools]
- 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"] -vo aa
- ["mplayer"] -vo caca
PIM
- todo list
- ["tdl"]
- ["hnb"] -- hierarchical notebook
- calendar tools
- ["pal"]
- ["ccal"]
- ["gcal"]
- address books
- ["lbdb"]
- ["bbdb"]
- ["abook"]
Office
- spreadsheet
- ["sc"]
- ["slsc"]
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).