Comments on: The coolest tools in the box http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Is this a dagger which I see before me? « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-47730 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:04:56 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-47730 [...] that’s fine, I suppose. Some of the best gadgets out there are simple one-line tools that start and finish with no more than a few letters and a flag or [...]

]]> By: Reaching way back: Bonzai Linux « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-45111 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:14:23 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-45111 [...] I get around it by installing from a live CD to a virtual machine, and then writing that image to the host drive with dd. (dd is quickly becoming another of my favorite tools.) [...]

]]> By: Howto: rsync a system between drives « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-41344 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:14:14 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-41344 [...] on the fly. And those trailing slashes are important. rsync is a really fantastic tool — one of my favorites — but it’s very precise about what you ask for. If you leave off a slash, it will [...]

]]> By: Putting the Pentium back to work « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-40883 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:06:09 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-40883 [...] thing, this time using the freshest software cut-to-fit a Pentium Classic, and set it up with ssh, nfs, rtorrent, screen-vs, cron and so forth. I’m keeping it on a wired connection this time, [...]

]]> By: mulenmar http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-39944 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:51:05 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-39944 Ah! I see, thank you very much!

]]> By: ssh is terrifically easy « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-39925 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:29:27 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-39925 [...] Published 2009/07/21 Arch Linux , Crux Linux , Linux , Ubuntu 5 Comments I mentioned a week or two ago that ssh was on my list of favorite utilities and tools, alongside things like nfs and the [...]

]]> By: nflenz http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-39856 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:48:22 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-39856 lspci -vvv | lp -d $printer

]]> By: mulenmar http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-39850 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:40:45 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-39850 Best usage of “>>” that I’ve found so far:

$ lspci -vvv >> syshardware.txt
$ nano syshardware.txt

One of these days I should figure out how to send the output straight to the printer, it would be a great sysadmin trick.

]]> By: road http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-39847 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:12:47 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-39847 sorry, i just realized your previous posts about screen-vs and htop… nothing new under the sun, i guess.

]]> By: road http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-39845 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:07:56 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-coolest-tools-in-the-box/#comment-39845 all those are great. i got really excited the first time I tried screen until I realized that it doesn’t have the ability to do vertical splits. it shouldn’t make that much of a difference, I guess, but this was a deal-breaker for me.

the one tool I’d add is top or, even better, htop which I can stare at for hours. it’s especially fun to combine with screen so you can watch your CPU usage as you run various processes/scripts/whatever.

great post.

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