> the background: i'm teaching a 2-day course later this week on unix/linux > power tools, and i've already got the manual, but it looks like there's maybe > 1.5 days worth of content there, so i have the freedom to fill up another 1/2 > day with whatever cool utilities i want. i'll be teaching the course off of > SL > 6.0 so i have the flexibility to add in whatever's normally available from the > SL repos. > > i'm going to add in some package management using yum, plus a quick > tutorial on ssh. any other topics people here use on a really regular basis > that they find indispensable? not necessarily admin level, just really, > really > handy programs. i realize it's kind of an open-ended question, i'm just > curious.
screen ssh with flags (port forwarding, X forwarding, etc) perl awk curl find + xargs skill mpg123 (hey gotta have some tunes while you power admin stuff) a terminal that can do horizontal/vertical splits Josh
