Cool, but obscure Unix tools

[Scott Elcomb]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Fabio FZero <fabio.fzero-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I knew most of them (I use htop and rtorrent all the time, by the
> way), but Ttytter will be added to my console-only netbook project.
> Renata's Asus EEE 900 has a busted trackpad, but everything else works
> perfectly. :-)
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 09:36, Mike Kallies <mike.kallies-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Awesome find.  I'm ashamed to say that I only knew about roughly a third
>> of these.   :-)

I recognize a little over half, and use a few regularly (hello htop!).
For console-based microblogging I use twidge rather than ttytter.

A quick note for apt (debian/ubuntu) users looking try ack, the
package & command are called ack-grep (ack is a Kanji character
converter)

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