List of Command Line Tools

[James Mcphee]

I have an admin that loves to open bunches of screen sessions and leave them
open forever.  This eventually kills the box, obviously.  Screen is a great
tool that does not in any way prevent people from doing goofy things.

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> I used to annoy my admins in school because i was the monster of
> screen abuse on that server.
>
> 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/
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
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> Matrix
> > Mole
> > Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 10:06 AM
> > To: Main PLUG discussion list
> > Subject: Re: List of Command Line Tools
> >
> > 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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>
> --
> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>
> Stephen
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James McPhee
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