So does a mv on the commandline ;} (if they are on the
same file-system, that is ... but then, mc would suffer
the same problem if they weren't .... )

And pity about vi ... mcedit is quite pathetic in comparison.

Cheers,
Tink

screen, bash, sed, awk, uniq, sort, tar, grep, find, xargs, du, df, chroot, rm, cp, ln, rsync, ls, mkdir, echo, date, tee, vi.

And that's without compilation stuff.

Yves.

Ok I guess that some people did not get the right idea of this..

I am creating a secure distro created off of slackware. It has no GUI. I was looking for actual programs that are very important for system administration that are not included by default.

Then you should have told us so in your first post.
Nevertheless, the thread gave interesting results.

Eric

That's not in contradiction with the post I wrote.
I actually wrote the names of the tools I use and combine almost every time I work on a Linux system/rescue shell.

Those tools, while standard on big distributions, are not necessarily included on a minimalist distro, which might be the case of a "secure" distro.
For example, it happened to me to be dropped to a shell where neither ls nor cd were available!

Yves.

Oooops, right you are sir; I could have sworn I had to install it on my desktop It does show up on a full brand new install I did on my laptop a couple months ago.

You must have missed this part of his original question:

tools that don't come standard with slackware

Eric

I believe that it was clear ...

Oh and also: rioutil (for those who have these kind of mp3 players).

Vlock is a must have for me. Bashburn is also usefull, although i recenty started using libburn instead.

xclip is very useful.

After using it, I wonder why it doesn't come standard with X.

For example, I've never been happy with xclipboard, or the X clipboard system in general. But this one-liner, which I can bind to a keystroke, makes things much easier for me (someone who likes to work using a keyboard and in a terminal)

What this does is pop up the current clipboard content in a message window, which I can keep open to make sure I don't lose its content.

xclip, in conjunction with keynav (which I've patched to allow middle-click), gives me much quicker X clipboard access almost mouselessly.

I am not familiar with xclip or xmessage but doesn't that require X to be installed?

Yes it does. Oops, I guess I forgot the fact you are not using any GUI. =D

Nevertheless, xclip is a great command line tool for controlling the X clipboard (if you are using X).

Well, yes indeed, I skipped that part. I'm so used to skipping distribution names in posts that I do it unconsciously now... That's because I don't use/know Slackware (and many others) but I try and help nonetheless.

Thanks you Eric for pointing that out factually.
Sorry for the useless posts.

Yves.