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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."
I've become very attached to my editor of choice -- Vim.
Emacs forever!!!
Yes, let's dig one of the oldest flamewars back up in the summary rather than discuss some of the article's other excellent information.
TFA mentions WGet, one of the most wonderful, most needed applications that most users and admins ON EVERY PLATFORM don't know they need. Why not focus on this rather than ressurect the text editor wars?
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
adjusting to anything else would seriously hinder my productivity, for a couple of weeks after which it may improve significantly.
I like vim for command line and something like textpad for GUI text editing. I've never tried Emacs, but then again I don't do a huge amount of text editing.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
But then, I've been using most of those tools for quite some time.
The one that interested me is cdb, which I hadn't heard of before. I'll have to try that out.
cat .bash_history | awk '{print $1}' | sort
Mine: (flawed commands removed)
cal
cat
cd
cdd
random text to get past lameness filter - isn't this why we have mods? size does matter!
chmod
clear
cp
crontab
curl
du
echo
grep
random text to get past lameness filter - isn't this why we have mods? size does matter!
gunzip
head
kill
killall
links
locate
ls
lynx
mkdir
mv
random text to get past lameness filter - isn't this why we have mods? size does matter!
open
pbpaste
pico
pine
ps
rm
rmdir
scp
screencapture
random text to get past lameness filter - isn't this why we have mods? size does matter!
ssh
su
sudo
tail
tar
telnet
top
touch
unzip
uptime
which
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
rsync isn't missing - it's in the list.
sudo, nmap, and lsof are all quite valid points, but many people don't bother with sudo. The main benefit of sudo is when you have many admins working on a machine. If you're not in such an environment, you really don't need sudo.
less? I'd rather use vim as a pager :)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
When did a CD audio ripper become an essential part of an admin's toolkit?
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
Missing tools?
;-)
what about the ability to login? I'd say the most important tool is the login prompt! cant do much without that one!
Also, I think this article is really trying to teach us all how to suck eggs... this IS slashdot after all!
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if you are a sysadmin, then you are administering the system. perl would always be available.
that said, awk rocks.
Knoppix.
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I found sed to be usful when I was writing shell scripts. Find for shure. And to amuse myself wall, for example, fortune -o | wall (add escape codes to kill your banner). Also ps can be important when things go wrong.
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