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Top 10 Items in the Linux Admin Toolkit

Posted by Zonk on from the lots-of-penguin-shaped-tools dept.

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."

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  1. FLAME ON! Or not.... by Bonker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

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    1. Re:FLAME ON! Or not.... by Bogtha · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Why not focus on this rather than ressurect the text editor wars?

      Big flamewar == more pageviews. More pageviews = more ad impressions. More ad impressions == higher profits.

      Slashdot editors post "provoking" (i.e. flamebait/troll) summaries/articles so frequently that you can essentially rule out stupidity and go straight to malice.

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  2. Re:Vim? Emacs foreva! by cayenne8 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I find that sed and awk are two tools I use the most. Not so much for sys admin stuff...but, I get all kinds of fscked up files that need to be cleaned up for insertion into an Oracle database instance.

    They usually give me stuff in Excel format...gotta export it to csv file...then, clean out imbedded CRLF's, headings and such...especially with free form txt fields. Anyway, a little scripting and scrubbing with awk and sed...and I can generate some good insert scripts for the databases.

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  3. abcde? by ameoba · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When did a CD audio ripper become an essential part of an admin's toolkit?

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