TODO - I have a lot of notes elsewhere, which need to be added
rename.pl from The Perl Cookbook
A program, or perl script, which does regular expression-enhanced batch renaming.
Essential.
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file utilities
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
A ubiquitous byte-copying tool.
I use this for copying disks, partitions and ISOs.
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Part of GNU's "coreutils"
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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/
"The GNU Find Utilities" is one of those packages that's installed everywhere. find is one of those programs everyone ends up using and ends up being horrified at.
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aka GNU Find Utilities
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grep - For searching the contents of files.
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Software > Linux tools >
A powerful paging program for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, and win32 systems. Unlike other well-known paging programs most supports multiple windows and can scroll left and right. Why settle for less?
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Software > Linux tools >
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/
A pager (file viewer) meant as a replacement for more.
It's ok, but not great.
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Software > Linux tools >
Programming >
(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
A text-editing programming language.
