A collection of Unix terminal/console/curses tools
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#2Good list thank you. Another good one is "VnStat/VnStati" I use it generate traffic graphs.
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#3> nethack & slash'em
> Still the most complex game on the planet.
Does anybody know if a HTML5 version of Nethack exists?
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#4For being "obscure", htop manages to find its way into a very large proportion of *NIX screenshots on the web.
Not to mention vim, rsync, curl, and ack, all of which I (and I had assumed everyone else) use on a regular basis.
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#5the full topic is "cool, but obscure unix tools"
most of these aren't really obscure, but i still think it's a cool list. thanks for that.
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#6> nethack & slash'em > Still the most complex game on the planet. Does anybody know if a HTML5 version of Nethack exists?
Very likely, but potentially even better is this WebTiles version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: http://crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/#lobby
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#7I'd love to see a site just like this, but cataloging all the best Unix console tools.
It sounds ridiculous, but you can tell a lot about a console program from a screenshot.
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#8I don't really think it's fair to call anything that's in a POSIX standard obscure (like xargs).
Most of these are fairly common, and many of the descriptions are terrible, for example: `rsync` doesn't "[Keep] filesystems in sync over SSH"; it's a versatile `cp`-like for dealing with remote systems efficiently that happens to support transfers over SSH.
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#9smem is pretty rad and obscure (http://www.selenic.com/smem/).
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#10ITT people who don't think those tools are obscure