List of Command Line Tools

[James Mcphee]

Screen is the greatest tool EVER!!!  A CLI window manager!  I mean, DUDE!!!

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Bryan O'Neal
<boneal at cornerstonehome.com>wrote:

> I'll be honest I have been reading this and going "oh yha, that is a good
> one" but I have never heard of screen until now
> http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/screen/
>
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>
> I am surprised, with all these great command line tools that have been
> mentioned no one has yet to mention screen, an almost vital component in my
> toolbox for command line usage.
>
> Other programs I use that I don't believe I've seen mentioned:
>
> rtorrent - Torrents
> mcabber - Jabber tool (connected to gchat) uudeview - used to decode binary
> files from newgroups
>
> I've tried both tin and slrn for newsgroup reading, both work great for
> text, but for some reason seem to fail at binary newgroup usage in my
> opinion (been over a year since I used newsgroups though so couldn't say
> off
> the top of my head why now). I've found nget works great for pure binaries
> though.
>
> I've been trying to find a really good imap based command line email client
> that blends almost perfectly with gmail and it's inability to accurately
> implement imap according to the RFCs (basically something that does similar
> to thunderbird but via command line instead). I've tried mutt, but it
> generated extra emails whenever I send for some reason (they appear in my
> inbox as replies of my email for some reason, causing unnecessary clutter).
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