Am 24.04.2011 19:23, schrieb Lukas Press:
> On 24/04/11 19:12, Yannick Perret wrote:
>> Vaclav Mocek a écrit :
>>> On 04/24/2011 01:57 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>>    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.
>>>>
>>>>    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.
>>>>
>>>>    thanks for any suggestions.
>>>>
>>>> rday
>>>>
>>> "vim"  and "bash" :-)
>> +1 :)
>> Maybe at/cron (crontabs: how to deal with *useful* output of crontabs
>> and to learn to target mails to the *good* people :)).
>> Maybe also 'sudo': learn them to *not* use root access :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> -- 
>> Y.
> 
> Screen?
> 
> Regards
> Chris

Screen is a great suggestion.

I've recently had a lot of work to do with OOo Calc and MS Excel. This
work reminded me what a great tool awk can be for working with tabular
data - not just the ubiquitous "awk '{print $3}' < data.csv".

Regards,
Florian Philipp