a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
the background: i'm teaching a 2-day course later this week on unix/linux power tools, and i've already got the manual, but it looks like there's maybe 1.5 days worth of content there, so i have the freedom to fill up another 1/2 day with whatever cool utilities i want. i'll be teaching the cour

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-24 Thread Larry Vaden
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >  thanks for any suggestions. iperf, mtr and configuring browser with java to enable running NDT.

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-24 Thread Robert William Fuller
Robert P. J. Day wrote: i'm going to add in some package management using yum, plus a quick tutorial on ssh. any other topics people here use on a really regular basis that they find indispensable? not necessarily admin level, just I find rsync and wget to be indispensable. Rob

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-24 Thread Vaclav Mocek
On 04/24/2011 01:57 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: the background: i'm teaching a 2-day course later this week on unix/linux power tools, and i've already got the manual, but it looks like there's maybe 1.5 days worth of content there, so i have the freedom to fill up another 1/2 day with whateve

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-24 Thread Yannick Perret
Vaclav Mocek a écrit : On 04/24/2011 01:57 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: the background: i'm teaching a 2-day course later this week on unix/linux power tools, and i've already got the manual, but it looks like there's maybe 1.5 days worth of content there, so i have the freedom to fill up anot

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-24 Thread Lukas Press
On 24/04/11 19:12, Yannick Perret wrote: Vaclav Mocek a écrit : On 04/24/2011 01:57 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: the background: i'm teaching a 2-day course later this week on unix/linux power tools, and i've already got the manual, but it looks like there's maybe 1.5 days worth of content th

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 24.04.2011 19:23, schrieb Lukas Press: > On 24/04/11 19:12, Yannick Perret wrote: >> Vaclav Mocek a écrit : >>> On 04/24/2011 01:57 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: the background: i'm teaching a 2-day course later this week on unix/linux power tools, and i've already got the manual, but

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-24 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Lukas Press wrote: > On 24/04/11 19:12, Yannick Perret wrote: >> >> Vaclav Mocek a écrit : >>> >>> On 04/24/2011 01:57 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:   the background: i'm teaching a 2-day course later this week on unix/linux power tools, and i've alrea

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-24 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/24/2011 06:07 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: "vim" and "bash" >> >> +1:) +2 on the vi (vim) Secondly, I use Mousepad a lot. It allows me to save text files in Windows format for all kinds of stuff I have to do for my Widows clients. -T

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Clint Bowman
I would second Rob's choices--rsync and wget are magic. -- Clint BowmanINTERNET: cl...@ecy.wa.gov Air Quality Modeler INTERNET: cl...@math.utah.edu Department of Ecology VOICE: (360) 407-6815 PO Box 47600FAX:

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Clint Bowman wrote: > I would second Rob's choices--rsync and wget are magic. rest assured, i am making notes of all these suggestions, and thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Steven Leikeim
Some tools that I like and use frequently: find wget screen wc grep (and all the fun of regular expressions) awk sed While not necessarily tools themselves, the following may also be interesting: Use of cron/crontabs Use of

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Michael Tiernan
Some tools that I like and use frequently: I'd like to add the tool "multitail" which is very helpful. -- << MCT>>Michael C Tiernan MIT - Laboratory for Nuclear Science - http://www.lns.mit.edu High Perf Research Computing Facility at The Bates Linear Accelerator xmpp:mtier...@m

RE: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Trutwin, Joshua
> the background: i'm teaching a 2-day course later this week on unix/linux > power tools, and i've already got the manual, but it looks like there's maybe > 1.5 days worth of content there, so i have the freedom to fill up another 1/2 > day with whatever cool utilities i want. i'll be teaching

RE: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Trutwin, Joshua
> > i'm going to add in some package management using yum, plus a quick > > tutorial on ssh. any other topics people here use on a really regular > > basis that they find indispensable? not necessarily admin level, just > > really, really handy programs. i realize it's kind of an open-ended >

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-26 Thread Brett Viren
"Robert P. J. Day" writes: > thanks for any suggestions. Version control (git, hg, svn, cvs). With the short time you have, the students can at least learn such things exist and their concepts, if not maybe time for a lot of hands-on use. A section on "Driving Bash" would be useful where you

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Patrick Riehecky
On 04/24/2011 07:57 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: the background: i'm teaching a 2-day course later this week on unix/linux power tools, and i've already got the manual, but it looks like there's maybe 1.5 days worth of content there, so i have the freedom to fill up another 1/2 day with whateve

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] a quick poll: what are your favourite linux "power" tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Bluejay Adametz
>    any other topics people here use on a really regular > basis that they find indispensable?  not necessarily admin level, just > really, really handy programs.  i realize it's kind of an open-ended > question, i'm just curious. The thing of it is, IMHO, UNIX, and especially most Linux distribu