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Software > Search >

(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.

  • aka GNU Find Utilities

See also:

  • grep – For searching the contents of files.
  • locate maintains a database.



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Linux email clients >

(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: claws-mail
https://www.claws-mail.org/ (on Windows)

A light and capable email client.

POP3, POP before SMTP, APOP, IMAP4rev1, IMAP over SSH, IMAP CAPABILITY, mh, SMTP, SMTP AUTH, NNTP, SSL/TLS, full OpenPGP support, external editors, filtering, muliple identities. Good multilanguage and character set support.



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Software > Scripting Languages >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.zsh.org/

A shell.

Though not usually available for a Linux distribution, it’s exceptionally powerful enough that I insist upon it.

Default for macOS.

  • aka Z shell

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Software > Scripting Languages >

(on Wikipedia)

This is the “base language” for shell scripting under Linux.

This is generally known as “the vanilla shell”.

  • Dash is very close to the vanilla shell, and is what I’m probably using.
  • My scripts are hosted in a git repository.



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