Command Line Tools I Like
Though my love with Linux started because its GUI, especially compiz fusion, I discovered through time that Linux’s power is in its command line, almost every thing can be done from there, easily, clean and fast.
Here is a list of the command line tools I use most of the time:
1. vim: A very powerful text editor, which runs directly inside your terminal/console. At the beginning I couldn’t find a reason why to use it, but after I started using it (for coding / general text editing) I can state that I rarely touch any other text editor.
2. todo.txt: A nice and easy TODO list manager. See my post about it.
3. define: A script which allows you to query Google for a definition right from your shell.
4. wikipedia.sh: Query Wikipedia right from your shell.
5. twit: A simple script to update your twitter status from the command line.
I’m sure I missed a few, it’s also not easy to decide which tools to include here, for example, is this the right place for “tools” like gcc or ssh? Anyway, This post may be updated from time to time.
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My name is Amir Watad. I have a BSc. in biomedical engineering from The Biomedical Engineering school , Technion , Israel, and a BSc. in electrical engineering from The Electrical Engineering school , Technion , Israel.
I'm a Verification Engineer in Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
I love Linux, the Command Line and the OpenSource Community.
I used to write Poems (Arabic) when I was able to find time for this.
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Cool post Amir,
Don’t forget wget, which makes grabbing files via http/ftp very quick and painless… And of course, my favourite is ssh
Thank you Daniel.
Sure, wget and ssh are great. I’m sure there are more useful commands that I didn’t add here. But I believe this is not my last post about command line tools. I use ssh very often and I believe that I’ll write a few posts about it.
By the way, I loved the posts in your blog about ssh.
What about the your code snippets tool? Are you working on making it popular? I think many people will find it useful.