¶ Awesome Software Tools

Some obscure free software tools that I've found. Where the Debian package names differs from the binary, the package name is in brackets .

¶ ack

(ack-grep)

grep for source code

¶ inotail

tail -f using inotify, which means the kernel informs you when the file grows, instead of polling every few seconds

¶ ii

a minimalist FIFO and filesystem-based IRC client. Creates a directory tree with server, channel and nick name directories. In every directory a FIFO in file and a normal out file is created.

¶ rsstail

tail, for RSS feeds

¶ i

(iprint)

$ i --help
45 0x2D 055 0b101101 '-'
45 0x2D 055 0b101101 '-'
104 0x68 0150 0b1101000 'h'
101 0x65 0145 0b1100101 'e'
108 0x6C 0154 0b1101100 'l'
112 0x70 0160 0b1110000 'p'

¶ iftop

top, for network interfaces.

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