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Top 10 Items in the Linux Admin Toolkit
Joe Barr writes "Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier has listed his favorite top ten tools for Linux system administration in a story on Linux.com, one of Slashdot's sister sites." From the site: " Since I spend a lot of my time working with text files, either when I'm writing and editing or when I'm mucking with configuration files and shell scripts, I've become very attached to my editor of choice -- Vim. Over the years, I've tried a lot of other editors, but none of them has been sufficient to coax me away from Vim. Part of the reason for that is the fact that I no longer have to think about using Vi-style keybindings, and adjusting to anything else would seriously hinder my productivity."
Condoms! With all the groupies chasing Linux system admins, you can never have too many condoms!
the article said "toolkit" not "tool shed, tool warehouse, and tool factory on wheels".
MORTAR COMBAT!
nothing quite like a vi/emacs flame fight to cap off the afternoon, eh? thanks y'all!
The only 3 commands any Emacs user needs to know:
Ctrl-x
Ctrl-c
vi
Don't forget:
- 1 bag of Cheerios
- 3 lettuces
- 1 lbs of carrots
- Detergent
- 6 Dr. Pepper bottles
- 1 box of tampons
otherwise don't bother to come home.
-- Your wife Linda
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Wget sucks, curl rules!
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
-kfg
rm
preferably with the -Rf options.
Sony ha
my iBook is my most useful tool... A portable unix box that never needs to be messed with or tweaked to work!
I really only have one:
nethack
Sorry, I was going to have an example of a for loop with sed, but I got busted by the lame filter. Seems like it gets harder to get past the stupid lameness filter all the time, yet I *STILL* constantly see goatse ascii. Why even fucking bother with the stupid thing if it doesn't work? You assholes.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Just kidding.
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html
1.3 What is curl not?
Curl is *not* a wget clone. That is a common misconception. Never, during
curl's development, have we intended curl to replace wget or compete on its
market. Curl is targeted at single-shot file transfers.
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Sorry, I was going to have an example of a for loop with sed, but I got busted by the lame filter. Seems like it gets harder to get past the stupid lameness filter all the time, yet I *STILL* constantly see goatse ascii. Why even fucking bother with the stupid thing if it doesn't work? You assholes.
Obviously and sadly, the gay niggers are intellectually superior to you.
Nano!!
apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade
Oh. Not everyone uses Debian, right, sorry. They should, though. *mumbles*
"Eddies," said Ford, "in the space-time continuum." "Ah," nodded Arthur, "is he? Is he?"
egrep is more useful than grep
netcat (nc) is more better than telnet
I don't wish to be picky, but it's
"netcat (nc) is more betterer than telnet"
Please prof reed yor articals!
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
grep - the filter of filters. Keeps down the signal to noise ratio
Interesting. Most people would prefer a high signal to noise ratio, but whatever floats your boat.
How about that? Run it and your social life will immediately improve. It is the first step toward a better life. Won't you take it today?
1) Your analysis is based on bad assumptions so your result is way off. 2) You're a sick bastard for fucking a horse.
I don't have any problem with that, I'm secure in my race and my sexuality. What I find amusing is that the gay niggers are intellectually superior to the people writing the lameness filter.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Plain and simple, zonk points out that you can not work all the time. Having that available allows you to rip to your local machine and then listen to them as you work. Made total sense to me.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
A rubber hammer - you lack ambition. A 4lb bricklayers hammer works far better. Learned this one 25 years ago when I worked in a camera shop.
Repairs to fiddly bits of cameras are best not attempted while severely hungover - especially the morning after someone has tried to break in through the window in the basement. Anyway customer comes in with jammed camera - this model (Russian Leica 3 clone) easy to fix once the top plate removed so wandered through the back to get small screwdrivers. Meanwhile boss in basement trying to fix broken window and yells up for me to bring down hammer.
Customer sees me emerging from the back of the shop wielding a hammer. His expression truly terrified at the thought of my attempting percussive maintenance to his camera with it. He had not been reassured by the aroma of stale whisky either and I've never seen anyone leave the shop so fast before or since.
Much relief when I wandered down to the basement with the hammer. Ever since then a 4lb hammer has been in the toolkit as the customers tend to shut up and let you get on with it once you have produced that. Only time it ever got used was when trying to make an antique colour laser printer fit in a skip. Now that WAS fun, if a little sad - that beast earned me something like its purchase price over the years when it played up.
'cat' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Mine:
.zsh_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10
;-)
$ awk '{print $1}'
1 bash
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