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Re: What's your favourite command line tool?

  • Subject: Re: What's your favourite command line tool?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:41:45 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
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__/ [ Linonut ] on Thursday 08 June 2006 18:03 \__

> After takin' a swig o' grog, Stuart Krivis belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>>>> So, basically I think it will be fun to share any esoteric command that
>>>> we've found and share with the rest of us, I'll start with:
>>>> 
>>>>     wtf
>>>> 
>>>> which very kindly tells you what acronyms stand for.
>>>
>>>It's a toss up between 'sed' and 'grep' here. I use grep more, but sed is
>>>just the coolest thing.... :-)
>>
>> tr is also useful, and I absolutely have to have pinfo. pkill is
>> useful too.
>>
>> enscript and pr
>>
>> fopen on SysV systems is really useful too.
>>
>> uniq
> 
> wget
> vim

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