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Top (three at most) most useful command line tools/utilities
Requirements: command line (any OS), must be extremely useful, very cool, and does not have to be a utility (eg, can be a CD ripper or CD burner whatever). Please also include an example favorite usage of the tool that illustrates it's usefulness.
I'm just going to include my favorite command line utility, but feel free to include your top (up to) three if you wish! Looking forward to finding some cool new tools from this thread!
lftp: What can't you do with this ftp client? It can do ftp, ftps, http, https, hftp, fish, sftp and file. It even supports torrent protocol. It supports a subset of standard unix commands as well.
Favorite usage: quickly mirror a remote directory to current local directory:
lftp -e "mirror -v /path/to/folder" sftp://user@host
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ompload: upload a file to ompldr.org; copy link to clipboard (requires ruby + curl)
useful for pretty much anything that you need to upload, eg.:
rsync would have to be my favourite.
A very robust yet simple way to transfer files. I've setup a cron that backs up all the data on my VPSs to a central location, good peace of mind..
rsync -avz -e ssh user@host:/remote/dir /this/dir/rm
wget, nano, mv, cp, I use all on a daily basis.
wget, rm-rf, nano
lol nano
How about some less common ones
wc
git, tig.
sh
screen
cd, dir, nano?
terminator, the split to three window to run : bmon, htop, nethogs
so i can monitor cpu, ram, and network, in one place
bash
ps_mem.py
mvcase
grep
sed
curl
nano
grep
ls
gcc, make, and vi. With those I can make the rest.
htop
iftop
nano
Everyone should know how to use netcat (nc) and telnet.
Htop, df, vi.
What's interesting for me is that I'm so used to Vim, that nano/pico is actually "too hard to use" for me
All the cool kids use nano.
Not even vim?
vi for me points to vim plus its 1 char shorter
So... vi, htop, awk and grep and of course sudo rm -rf /
du -ksBM * | sort -gI use an alias of this so much its not even funny.Big surprise here... the topic has turned into an editor war.
nano? pico is like 10x better
Real men use ed.
exit
Each time I open a terminal to run something, I don't know but I always close the terminal with following :
free; uptime; ps faux; exit
I have always used nano for some reason so it is what I use. And realistically for what I use it for it really is all I need.
I hate vim, though admittedly I use it a lot. I just want to use vi - I don't want it in multiple colors, I don't want the editor inserting comment starters automatically, I don't want syntax highlighting, etc. In Linux my .vimrc is mostly commands to turn annoying vimprovements off.