Geek Style
After a default install (windows or Unix), I can’t go ahead without having these tools installed:
- Putty (SSH/SFTP client for windows)
- tcsh (I wonder how can people prefer bash to tcsh!)
- Postfix (Superior to sendmail)
- grep (UNIX without grep is like home without light)
- wget (Full control over downloads. I even use it in windows)
- mc (de facto file manager for CLI)
- portupgrade (Addictive port upgrading utility for FreeBSD)
Living as a SysAdmin without these utilities if is not impossible, but is a real pain.
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“ls” as in alias ls=’gnuls –co’ might come in handy too (on my FreeBSD-box)
“echo *” is just not the way to go }:-)