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List Your Favourite CLI Programs & Utilities

j.lathian
j.lathian Posts: 3
in Command Line

List your favourite CLI programs. :)

Even though I'm in GNOME most of the time, I still use irssi, and MOC, nano. I've started to use grep a lot more than I have been. For the longest time, I could never use the darn thing, but, I guess as time serves you get accustomed to what is used. I also use Find, and Locate.

That's pretty much it, or at least all I can think of right now.

Justin B)

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  • mfillpot
    mfillpot Posts: 2,177
    My favorites are dd, sed, locate, grep, du, vim, cat, sort, cut and less.
  • abrenar
    abrenar Posts: 117
    My favorites:

    vi
    grep
    find
    df
    du
    top
    cd
    chmod
    chown
    mv
    cp
    ssh
    telnet
    scp
    svn

    :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:
  • klk206
    klk206 Posts: 1
    mc
    calc (from apcalc)
    gv
    a2ps or enscript
  • Moult
    Moult Posts: 1
    Ignoring utilities, I would say the apps I like are:
    vim, calcurse, irssi, mpc, mutt, finch.
  • cmdln
    cmdln Posts: 4
    [ul]
    vim
    bc
    screen
    rsync
    sar
    [/ul]
  • highvoltage
    highvoltage Posts: 5
    Same as above but I'd add:

    [ul]
    [li]htop[/li]
    [li]mc[/li]
    [li]ethstatus[/li]
    [li]pbzip2[/li]
    [li]debootstrap[/li]
    [li]ccze[/li]
    [li]ethstatus[/li]
    [li]listadmin[/li]
    [li]fakeroot[/li]
    [li]strace[/li]
    [li]bzr[/li]
    [li]dput[/li]
    [li]irssi[/li]
    [li]toilet[/li]
    [li]figlet[/li]
    [li]sshfs[/li]
    [/ul]

    Hmm, maybe too many to list :)
  • chip
    chip Posts: 2
    ls, tar, vim, grep, less, sed, cat, chmod, echo, iwconfig, dhcpcd
  • melik
    melik Posts: 6
    irssi
    pacman
    ssh
    top
    and all the other utilities
  • adrian
    adrian Posts: 6
    finch
    vnstat
    netstat
    nano
    pine/alpine
    calc
    cd & ls :)
  • alphakamp
    alphakamp Posts: 1
    irssi, screen, bitlbee, htop, vim
  • atreyu
    atreyu Posts: 216
    whoami

    of course, i've always been a bit of a philospher...
  • weibullguy
    weibullguy Posts: 5
    PackManUtil
    Kermit
    SSH
    Vim
  • Exodus
    Exodus Posts: 2
    'cd' haha j/k

    I guess my favorites, being the ones I use the most would be:

    ssh, aptitude, emerge, grep, ps, kill, find, scp, nano, irssi, less, tail
  • BluePeppers
    BluePeppers Posts: 1
    moc
    mv
    cp
    rm
    rmdir
    mkdir
    vim
    sed
    grep
    ls
    cd
    modprobe
    su
    sudo
    mount
    pacman
  • border
    border Posts: 1
    vim
    cp
    rm
    ssh
    git
    sudo
    gcc
    gdb
  • isaac
    isaac Posts: 17
    Hey, I love me some "wall"
  • Exodus
    Exodus Posts: 2
    Nice, a lot of Arch users around. /wave
  • masinick
    masinick Posts: 20
    Looking at my recent command history, I use cd, ls, df, ceni, clear, ps, top, htop, rm, sux, sudo, mv, apt-get, and more frequently, and lately, since I've been doing some simple editing, often of the clipboard or just a few minor changes variety, I've been using the small, fast GUI editor Leafpad. I use both Vim and GNU Emacs when I am doing involved work, depending on the nature of that work.
  • kunal
    kunal Posts: 2
    my favorite commands are:
    emacs
    grep
    apt-get
    find
    chmod
    chown
    service
    cd
    cd /etc
    ls

    and many more :laugh:
  • nulld0g
    nulld0g Posts: 3
    cmus
    wget
    nano
  • sash-kan
    sash-kan Posts: 2 
    $ history | awk '{print $2}' | \\
awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | \\
sort -nr | head -10
   2273 sudo
   1677 less
   1425 man
   1321 vi
   1276 ll
    940 cd
    893 cat
    886 echo
    857 ls
    820 rm
$ history | grep 'sudo' | sed -e 's/sudoedit/sudo edit/' | \\
awk '{print $3}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}' | \\
sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10
    400 aptitude
    256 edit
     66 cp
     62 rm
     56 ls
     49 chown
     39 tshark
     37 mv
     36 lsof
     35 du
  • Kelly Clowers
    Kelly Clowers Posts: 1
    newsbeuter - Atom and RSS feed reader
    wget
    irssi
    aptitude
    vim
    xmms2 (cli client)
    rtorrent
    git
    ssh
    screen
    sudo
    ffmpeg
    iftop
    netstat
    iproute2
    htop
    grep
    du
    df
    apropos

    xrandr
    shorewall
    mplayer
  • kreggz
    kreggz Posts: 3
    ignoring the standard ones

    mtr - combination of ping and trace route
    bmon - shows network stats
    nmap - port scanning
    snmpget - get snmp info from a device
    snmpwalk - get alot of snmp info from a device
    kismet - wifi scanning
  • Guzanof
    Guzanof Posts: 14 
    #!/bin/sh

# need `aptitude install beep`
beep -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.1 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.1 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 --new -l 700 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 587.32 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 587.32 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 587.32 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 622.26 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 369.99 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.1 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 --new -l 700 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 784 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 392 -D 100 --new-l 350 -f 784 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 739.98 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 698.46 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 659.26 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 622.26 -D 100 --new -l 50 -f 659.26 -D 400 --new -l 25 -f 415.3 -D 200 --new -l 350 -f 554.36 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 523.25 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 493.88 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 440 -D 100 --new -l 50 -f 466.16 -D 400 --new -l 25 -f 311.13 -D 200 --new -l 350 -f 369.99 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.13 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 700 -f 587.32 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 784 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 784 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 739.98 -D 100 --new -l25 -f 698.46 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 659.26 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 622.26 -D 100 --new -l 50 -f 659.26 -D 400 --new -l 25 -f 415.3 -D 200 --new -l 350 -f 554.36 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 523.25 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 493.88 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 440 -D 100 --new -l 50 -f 466.16 -D 400 --new -l 25 -f 311.13 -D 200 --new -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.13 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 300 -f 392.00 -D 150 --new -l 250 -f 311.13 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 700 -f 392
  • aarrieta
    aarrieta Posts: 2
    my favourites/most used:

    nmap
    pico
    ping
    ssh
    mc
    tail
    grep
    cat
    wget
    nslookup
    whois
    dig
  • dozi
    dozi Posts: 1
    my favorites cli apps are;

    links
    gtmess
    mc
    moc player
    open cubic player
    vitetris :)
    wget
    weechat
    alpine
    nmap
    nslookup :)
    nano
    antiword
    ffmpeg
  • devkhadka
    devkhadka Posts: 8
    grep
    ls
    ps
    mplayer
    vi
    ssh
    rdesktop
    df
    dd
    ......... n lots more
  • jonix
    jonix Posts: 1
    The command I use most frequently.
    * ls -lF
    * cd
    * cat

    The commands I have most use for is
    * find
    * grep
    * awk & cut
    * xargs

    It is amazing how much you can achieve using find
    and executing other tools through find exec
  • ludovic.ferre
    ludovic.ferre Posts: 21
    Guzanof: #!/bin/sh

    # need `aptitude install beep`
    beep -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.1 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.1 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 --new -l 700 -f 392 -D 100 -- new -l 350 -f 587.32 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 587.32 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 587.32 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 622.26 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 369.99 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.1 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 --new -l 700 - f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 784 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 392 -D 100 --new-l 350 -f 784 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 739.98 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 698.46 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 659.26 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 622.26 -D 100 --new -l 50 - f 659.26 -D 400 --new -l 25 -f 415.3 -D 200 --new -l 350 -f 554.36 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 523.25 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 493.88 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 440 -D 100 --new -l 50 -f 466.16 -D 400 --new -l 25 -f 311.13 -D 200 -- new -l 350 -f 369.99 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.13 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 700 -f 587.32 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 784 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 392 - D 100 --new -l 25 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 784 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 739.98 -D 100 --new -l25 -f 698.46 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 659.26 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 622.26 -D 100 --new -l 50 -f 659.26 -D 400 --new -l 25 -f 415.3 -D 200 --new -l 350 - f 554.36 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 523.25 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 493.88 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 440 -D 100 --new -l 50 -f 466.16 -D 400 --new -l 25 -f 311.13 -D 200 --new -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.13 -D 100 -- new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 300 -f 392.00 -D 150 --new -l 250 -f 311.13 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 700 -f 392

    There's a minor problem in the command line, position 596 we have "--new-l" instead off "--new -l".

    But when it plays, it's real cool:p

    Well done!
  • thangola
    thangola Posts: 2
    grep
    less
    vim
    most
    ssh
    nmap
    ping

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