Command Line Tools

[Joseph Sinclair]

I can help with a few of these:

git, svn, cvs:
  These are source code revision control tools (git is distributed, svn/cvs are centralized).  git is used by the Linux kernel developers.  svn is meant to replace cvs and is the most commonly used tool for open source projects.  Other similar tools include open-source DARCS, Mercurial, Bazaar, arch, Monotone, and codeville; and proprietary ClearCase, BitKeeper, Perforce, MKS, StarTeam, and Visual SourceSafe/TFS.  There are MANY others.
dig, nslookup:
  DNS resolution tools, used to check what a given DNS name is pointing to and verify resolution paths.  Dig is intended to replace nslookup.
scp:
  scp is part of the OpenSSH suite, and performs a file copy between systems using SSL to authenticate the destination user and encrypt the data in transit.  Related tools include ssh, ssh-copy-id, ssh-agent, ssh-keygen, slogin, and ssh-add.
ps:
  basic process statistics.  Try ps -elf or ps aux.
aux:
  usually seen as an argument to ps, rather than it's own program...
imo:
  I think this is just a shortened caveat (In My Opinion)

I hope that helps.

Matthew A Coulliette wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently, I posted a reply to "Yet Another PGP Test..." which I had
> intended to be a new thread.  The subject on the reply was "List of
> Command Line Tools".  I would like to thank everyone for posting the
> commands that they use.  I have researched the commands and there are a
> few I could not find or understand.  I am hoping you guys will give me a
> little more direction on the following items:
> 
> relabel, enableaudit, audit2allow, dig, nslookup, git, svn, cvs, scp,
> ps, aux, poe, imo, uudeview.
> 
> Some commands seem to be out-of-date:
> 
> growisofs=>dvd+rw-tools
> mkisofs=>genisoimage
> cdrecord=>wodim
> dvdrecord=>wodim
> 
> Thanks. - MatthewMPP