Great Little Programs
Posted on Mon, 2 Jul 2007 in Technology
Last edited Mon, 2 Jul 2007
Last edited Mon, 2 Jul 2007
I often discover some opensource utility that solves a problem
I've had for years, and I just say to myself "wow. why didn't i
know about this already?" there's so much stuff out there
it's easy to overlook great programs even when they're exactly what
you need. Here are a few that come to mind
- xargs
- move strings from it's standard input to the argument list of a command
- filelight
- visualize disk usage
- apt-file
- search for .deb packages that contain certain file names
- Mercurial Queues
- manage and version control a set of patches against an upstream codebase
- k3b
- burn a cd without having to think about it
- amarok
- manage your music collection