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Reply To: | Trutwin, Joshua |
Date: | Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:17:12 +0000 |
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> the background: i'm teaching a 2-day course later this week on unix/linux
> power tools, and i've already got the manual, but it looks like there's maybe
> 1.5 days worth of content there, so i have the freedom to fill up another 1/2
> day with whatever cool utilities i want. i'll be teaching the course off of SL
> 6.0 so i have the flexibility to add in whatever's normally available from the
> SL repos.
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> i'm going to add in some package management using yum, plus a quick
> tutorial on ssh. any other topics people here use on a really regular basis
> that they find indispensable? not necessarily admin level, just really, really
> handy programs. i realize it's kind of an open-ended question, i'm just
> curious.
screen
ssh with flags (port forwarding, X forwarding, etc)
perl
awk
curl
find + xargs
skill
mpg123 (hey gotta have some tunes while you power admin stuff)
a terminal that can do horizontal/vertical splits
Josh
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