Programs: coreutils

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There are some variances between linux/BSD, and other flavours of unix, but generally speaking these are the tools you can expect to have at your fingertips while you are operating a unix inspired operating system.

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General

coreutils chmod
coreutils chown
coreutils chroot
coreutils dd
coreutils cut
coreutils seq
coreutils sort
coreutils tee
coreutils date

GNU

gnu sed
gnu awk
gnu shuf
gnu find
gnu ls
gnu tail
gnu less
gnu base64

BSD

bsd jot
bsd find
bsd date
bsd less

Offsetting Jobs

at

at 09:00 27.07.14 <<END
> echo "Don't forget to wish a Happy Birthday to Raphaël!" \
>   | mail lolando@debian.org
> END

watch

# run a command every 5 seconds
watch -n 5 <command>

repeat

# repeat a command a particular number of times
repeat 300 <command> && sleep 5