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Useful Utilities Roundtable

Located in CoC 52

Here is a list of useful utilities presented at the roundtable meeting:

cd - change to last working directory
popd / pushd directory stack tool
screen terminal multiplexer
xargs command-line argument manipulator; workaround for maximum argument list lengths
reverse-i-search bash builtin to search command history
nmap network mapping and probing tool
zenmap GUI for nmap
aptitude ncurses-based frontend for apt (Debian/Ubuntu)
apt-file tool for searching packages for certain files (Debian/Ubuntu)
xrandr screen rotation and resolution changing utility
pv pipe-viewing tool: watch how much data is passing through a
pipe
htop improved, interactive ‘top’ for process management
wicd wireless connection manager
genius general purpose calculator utility
dc RPN (reverse Polish notation) calculator utility
bc very simple calculator utility, useful in scripting
less -S chop lines, allowing side-scrolling for long lines
most advanced pager, like ‘less’ and ‘more’
grep –color=auto when searching, colorize matches (default on Gentoo)
impressive similar to Mac’s Keynote (used to be called keyjnote)
clutter C++ presentation framework

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