Daemon Dancing in the Dark

Underappreciated CLI

Eight underutilized CLI tools are examined and explained in this very interesting page from Novell. Here's the eight tools under the microscope:

• watch - a builtin command
• jumpgate - 3rd party utility
• lsof - builtin
• atop - 3rd party
• iftop - 3rd party
• pstree - standard command, albeit with some weird terminal requirements
• netcat - 3rd party GNU utility
• strace - standard utility

It's a little strange then, the title and the fact that half of them are third party apps. I would have thought it would concentrate more on standard tools that are underused, not 3rd party apps that you might not know about. But still, a nice list of CLI utilities. I only knew about lsof, iftop, pstree and strace, and only lsof and iftop are part of my standard CLI arsenal, so I was glad to get a refresher course on these tools. Off to YaST to install the 3rd party ones!

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