Comments on: Powerhouse Programs of Linux

By: Karuna

Karuna — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:57:18 +0000

Wow, really awesome article,
netcat is cool !

Carl — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:03:48 +0000

@Peter
No need to include redirection:
grep 25 /etc/services

Finding Files in Linux — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:04:00 +0000

[...] The find command is what I would call a powerhouse program. [...]

Vitor Almeida da Silva — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:22:07 +0000

Very nice article. The best part is the fast and useful little examples with each command.

You can make another post listing other useful command line programs like nmap and imagemagick.

Peter — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:35:56 +0000

It’s bad form to use cat + grep, a nicer approach for the example is this:
grep 25 < /etc/services

Jade Robbins — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:08:28 +0000

@Ross yeah tail -f is SO useful. Basically anyone doing system administration in nix will use that constantly.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:07:49 +0000

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Mark Sanborn — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:05:52 +0000

@Ross I fixed the error in the alias command. Thanks! Also, tail -f is cool. I will add that to the post.

@Bobby Parker, Yes I admit these are *nix apps.

@Roland Orre That alias looks like it could come in handy. Do you echo the readme.txt in the same directory usually or store a general list?

Roland Orre — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:56:09 +0000

I have defined an alias as
alias wlget=’echo >>README.txt wget $@ ; wget $@’

Each time I’m fetching a file I get a log in the same directory telling where I got it from.

Bobby Parker — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:14:43 +0000

It’s worth mentioning that the majority of these are usable on OS X as well (freebsd, etc. etc. ).