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*NIX tool improvements (VII)

The silver searcher a.k.a.ag is a beter ack is a better grep.

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A little collection of cool unix terminal/console/curses tools

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*NIX tool improvements (V)

upstart is a better /sbin/init

Daemon management is done much easier with /etc/init config files rather than /etc/init.d scripts. Ubuntu-oriented; other distros have only limited support.

See a nice description/tutrial at http://stackful.io/blog/what-every-developer-needs-to-know-about-ubuntu-upstart/

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*NIX Tools improvements (IV)

HTTPie is a better curl

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*NIX tools improvements (III)

mosh is a better ssh

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*NIX tools improvements (II)

[x]freerdp is a better [fork of] rdesktop

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A short list of classic *NIX tools replacements/improvements (I)

ack is a better grep

byobu is a better screen

less is a better more (this one is long-familiar, of course!)

mtr is a better traceroute

yakuake is a better (well, rather different) konsole

This microblog already has a few readers. Could you suggest more entries to the list?

To be continued ...