Aside from version control tools such as cvs or svn, perl, and of course the standard GNU utils (coreutils and binutils), I would choose:

  • ssh: A must have. One feature i cant live without are tunnels.
  • vim: I need an editor and like this one. And no, i have never tried emacs.
  • screen: Incredibly useful when you need to deal with multiple terminals, but you dont want to switch between lots of windows, tabs or consoles.
  • zsh: Offers lots of useful features that other shells does not.
  • sed and awk: Yes, Perl does it, but usually i do it faster whith this.

    In reply to Re: Tools you can't live without by fauria
    in thread Tools you can't live without by Mutant

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