["Bash"]
Note
This is an almost identical page to "Console Survival". One of these two should go.
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"] -- mitloggen was auf der console los ist (English, bitte?).
- ["find"], ["locate"] -- assist finding files
- ["cut"], ["paste"], ["uniq"], ["sort"], ["sed"], ["awk"], ["perl"], ["python"]
- news
- ["slrn"] --
- ["tin"] --
- mail
- ["mutt"] -- all mail clients suck - this one sucks less
- editors
- ["vim"]
- ["emacs"]
- ["jed"] -- colours in source code in no time
- ["joe"] -- wordstar kompatible Tastaturbelegung (English, bitte?).
- ["nano"] -- scho:n klein
- todo list
- ["tdl"]
- ["hnb"] -- hierarchical notebook
- ["woody"] -- hierarchic text editor.
- calendar tools
- ["pal"]
- address books
- ["lbdb"]
- ["bbdb"]
- ["abook"]
- spreadsheet
- ["sc"]
- ["slsc"]
- Shells
- ["bash"]
- ["zsh"]
- Databases
- ["MySQL"]
- ["Postgres"]
- mixer
- ["aumix"]
- ["alsamixer"]
- sound
- ["ogg123"]
- ["mpg321"]
- ["cplay"]
- ["mp3blaster"]
- ["cdcd"]
- ["id3ed"]
- 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
- IRC
- ["ircII"], ["EPIC"]
- ["irssi"]
- ICQ
- ["licq"]
- ["micq"]
- ["bitlbee"] -- ICQ to IRC gateway
- ["centericq"]
- WWW
- ["lynx"]
- ["links"]
- ["elinks"]
- ["w3m"]
- ["surfraw"]
- ["wget"]
- ["curl"]
- ["snownews"] -- Console RSS/RDF aggregator
- fun
- ["fortune"]
- ["sl"]
- ["bb"]
- ["filters"] -- B1FF, Swedish Chef, ...
- locking
- ["vlock"]
- ["cmatrix"]
- Misc
- ["dict"]
- ["getty"]
- System Administration
- ["top"] -- list whats runing and resource usage
- ["ngrep"] -- Show network connections
- ["apachetop"] -- Show active Apache details.
- ["ssh"] -- Remote system interaction (replaces deprecated "r" commands, telnet, ftp).