On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:49:33AM +0000, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Hello > > I wanted to get an expert and informed consensus on what command line > interface tools are well suited to each of the following purposes which > may well mean what you use. My current choices have been entered but > please feel free to add your own with a comma in between. Also, if you > feel any categories are missing please add them!
I'll add mine below. Any omitted are things I don't use or haven't gotten around to using in a CLI environment. > # Email: mutt, yup > # Browser: lynx, links (full table support and good colors, far superior to lynx IMHO) > # File manager: mc, bash :) > # IRC: bitchx, yup > # Sound mixer: alsamixer, yup, not that I do much of this > # Editor: vim, yup > # Diff: colordiff, didn't know it existed, I'll give it a try. normally just use diff though > # Read file: less, yup > # Transfer file: scp, yup > # Compression: tar, tar + bz2 > # Term: eterm gnome-terminal > # Partitioning: cfdisk fdisk or cfdisk > # Others: screen hell yea :) Regards, alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing. -- Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
