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Start your linux command-line friendship

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Start your linux command-line friendship

A few years back I knocked together this quick Vagrant setup to introduce some peeps to the joy of the linux command-line.

https://github.com/svo/command-line-tools-buzz-session

This was intended as an introduction for a novice audience. If you have the love already, move right along… nothing to see here.

Tools introduced:

  • locate - Find files on your file system quickly using a portion of it's name.
  • ncdu - Command line file system size utilisation with navigation.
  • tree - Directory tree listing.
  • pstree - Process tree listing.
  • nmap - Network port scanner.
  • lsof - Process owning an open file/port.
  • mc - Midnight Commander command line file manager.
  • who - List currently logged in users.
  • w - List currently logged in users and what they are doing.
  • write - Send messages to another logged in user.
  • watch - Run a command repeatedly at a given interval.
  • find - Find files in a give path.
  • cut - Remove line sections from a file.
  • pushd - Change to directory <path> and push current directory onto directory stack.
  • popd - Navigate to the directory at the top of the directory stack.
  • xargs - Execute command on standard out from previous command with |.
  • time - Time a command.
  • wondershaper - Network adapter shaping tool.
  • jq - JSON processor.