[NTLUG:Discuss] Dec demonstration: CLI tricks of a long time user

[Chris Cox]

On 11/30/2011 05:22 PM, John Fields wrote:
> Contrary to popular rumor, old dogs love new tricks.
> Especially when it comes to making our life easier. Hehe.
>
> I'll be demonstrating programs and configurations I have picked up over the
> years to turbo charge my command line usage. Look for:
>
> ssh (hosts and common config options)
> ssh-copy-id (Note: Not available on a stock Mac!)
> mc (midnight commander)
> mtr (My Trace Route)
> htop (visual top, with trees, sorting and searching..)
> "my" bash aliases (program shortcuts)
> "my" bash config (special prompts, colors, etc)
> history and the Ctrl+R keys
> screen
>
> Great for newbies , beneficial for old dogs. Bring up your own favorites!

iptraf
strace
ltrace
yast (smile)
vim (duh)
w3m
links/elink
lynx
wget
curl
slrn
hwinfo
dmidecode
ssh (duh)
aaview (and friends)
cacaview (and friends)
screen (as mentioned already)
whois,ping,traceroute,tracepath,host,dig,nslookup,mtr (as mentioned already), etc...
convert (ImageMagick)
nethack (smile)

also:
showsysfs (author is a genius!... but not very humble)
VolInfo (same author)
(see http://endlessnow.com/ten/Source/)

Back in 2009 I did one of these presentations... but I didn't post anything, it 
focused on graphical stuff and multimedia... but without X Windows.

nvlc anyone?

Other links:

http://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools