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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
    • ["vim"]
    • ["emacs"]
    • ["jed"] -- colours in source code in no time
    • ["joe"] -- wordstar kompatible Tastaturbelegung (English, bitte?).
    • ["nano"] -- scho:n klein
    • ee -- an "easy editor" for novices and compuphobics

    • levee -- very small vi clone

    • dav-text -- a minimalist ncurses-based text editor

  • Shells
    • ["bash"]
    • ["zsh"]
  • Databases
    • ["MySQL"]
    • ["Postgres"]
  • ansi graphic editors
    • ["aewan"]
    • ["tetradraw"]
  • fun
    • ["fortune"]
    • ["sl"]
    • ["bb"]
    • ["filters"] -- B1FF, Swedish Chef, ...
  • locking
    • ["vlock"]
    • ["cmatrix"]
  • Misc

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).

See also