LivingInTheConsole

Living in the Console

Founder:

martian742

Coops:

cubz, merlyn, tlamer

Operating
System(s):

GNU/Linux,other Unixes

Programming
Language(s):

bash, etc.

Status:

idea

Created:

2012-05-02

Last Modified:

2013-04-03

Tools of survival

man "command" - displays system documentation for "command" apropos "command" - search the manual page names and descriptions

Sysadmins cheatsheets

• http://www.datadisk.co.uk/html_docs/misc/unix_commands.htm
• http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

Netcat usage

• http://mylinuxbook.com/linux-netcat-command/

dd

• howto1
• howto2

Let's divide the console-based life into several meaningful categories that describe where and how these help to be more efficient.

Shells

• Bourne Again SHell
• Korn SHell
• Zsh (Zsh wiki) - insanely customizable and has faster autocompletion than bash

Window managers

• awesome
• spectrwm
• xmonad

Server-side terminal enhancers (multiplexers)

• screen
• tmux [1]

Text editors

• vi / nvi / vim
• GNU Emacs with -nw parameter
• GNU nano

Terminals

• LivingInTheConsole/Urxvt (urxvtc & urxvtd if you plan to use a lot of terminals)

Media players

• mplayer
• mpd - music server
• ncmpc - mpd client

IM clients

• irssi - IRC client
• mcabber - XMPP client
• finch - libpurple based (same as pidgin) IM client

Web browsers

• links / links2
• elinks
• lynx
• w3m

Mail clients

• mutt
• alpine

Dynamic languages

• Perl
• Python
• Ruby

Inspiration

There's a Linux Journal issue in the cabinet I borrowed from Progressbar that celebrates the use of console-based tools wherever possible. I kinda like the idea and efficiency on the human side as well as on the sometimes-cheap&slow HW side (my favorite netbooks). :D