Little known gems and apps you use

dxnxax · 04-01-2011, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Bruce Hill

That is not helpful, but rather, harmful and immature. I've reported your post but am asking you nicely that you edit and remove your command.

Yowzaa. Sorry you took it like that. April Fools Day and all. Hope you didn't use it.

audriusk · 04-01-2011, 03:22 PM

cmus console music player. As they advertise it: small, fast and powerful. Also with vi-like keyboard shortcuts and command line.

ruario · 04-02-2011, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by dugan

Command-line archive handler. Don't bother with unzip and unrar again: just enter "7x x" followed by the archive name.

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.1/system/p7zip/

Use bsdtar. It is already installed and handles a range of formats, including zips and iso files.

bgeddy · 04-02-2011, 11:43 AM

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Use bsdtar. It is already installed and handles a range of formats, including zips and iso files.

Wow - I just tried this "bsdtar tf myiso.iso" and it listed the files on the .iso. No more "mount -o loop " to examine an iso. That's a wonderful find - thanks very much - I never knew the bsdtar version even existed - very useful.

ruario · 04-02-2011, 01:43 PM

bgeddy: use it to look at (and extract) rpm and deb files as well.

Alien Bob · 04-02-2011, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by bgeddy

Wow - I just tried this "bsdtar tf myiso.iso" and it listed the files on the .iso. No more "mount -o loop " to examine an iso. That's a wonderful find - thanks very much - I never knew the bsdtar version even existed - very useful.

No need to install an external program to look at an ISO content. You have the cdrtools for that already.

For an "ls -lR" type of output, use

Code:

isoinfo -R -l -i /path/to/some.iso

And for a "find . -print" type of output use

Code:

isoinfo -R -p -i /path/to/some.iso

Eric

splintercdo · 04-02-2011, 03:59 PM

InfraRecorder is not linux application, YET

I hope developers will have resources to do that.
Anyway application is licensed under GPL.

Application works wonderfully under WINE.

You might say, pft..., we have already bunch of good cd burners(K3B, Brasero etc.)

I would answer not only InfraRecorder have more friendly user interface,

IT SIMPLY CAN DO THINGS, WHAT NO OTHER CD BURNER ON LINUX(WHICH I TESTED) COULD.
(Everything started from game Knights & Merchants game cd, I wanted to make iso image from disk to preserve game and non of linux burners made it possible, then I got interested and tested out some 20 old cd's which should be thrown out K3B and Brasero both had issues with 3 of them, InfraRecorder NONE[all 20 were copied succesfuly])

So I really, really recommend this application, mostly for QUALITY of it's work, and also very friendly user interface.

ruario · 04-02-2011, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

No need to install an external program to look at an ISO content. You have the cdrtools for that already.

Umm .. but bsdtar is also part of a standard full install (it comes with libarchive), so it isn't an external program.

Code:

$ curl -s http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware64-current/slackware64/MANIFEST.bz2 | bzcat | grep bin/bsdtar
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     66792 2010-12-03 13:34 usr/bin/bsdtar

Ahmed · 04-02-2011, 04:53 PM

I've been using xfig quite heavily the past few days for schematic illustrations. The interface isn't pretty, but the power and flexibility is amazing. Key shortcuts and the grouping and update functions make it simply beautiful to use.

-A

gargamel · 04-02-2011, 05:10 PM

I like an oldie: Tgif is a decent, small and incredibly fast vector drawing program. It is the perfect companion for TeX/LaTeX, Gnuplot etc. and nicely complements other vector drawing programs, such as Dia or LibreOffice Draw. BTW, there's a SlackBuild script for Tgif available (My special thanks to Dario Nicodemi!).

Another program that has accompanied me for many years is ding. Nowadays I have its KDE incarnation KDing permanently on my desktop. This is a really nice and smart little dicitionary utility. There's a SlackBuild script for ding available (thank you, Martin Ivanov!). KDing can be easily built from source. I used src2pkg for that, if I recall it correctly.

gargamel

ruario · 04-02-2011, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Bruce Hill

You underestimate the intelligence/technical level of Linux users.

I'm not really sure I understand your response. I'm pointing out that on modern Slackware (13.37 at least, I haven't checked previous versions) 'rm -fr /' isn't such a great risk. Here I'll do it for you on my main system as root:

Code:

# rm -fr /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `/'
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

The link in my previous post about this explained why it doesn't work. For the lazy who don't want to scroll back GNU coreutils was altered to prevent you doing this without an extra switch.

This is not to say that it isn't a major mistake on old systems. In the past it was certainly a major mistake to do but it has been fixed for a while now I believe.

chrisretusn · 04-02-2011, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by bgeddy

Wow - I just tried this "bsdtar tf myiso.iso" and it listed the files on the .iso. No more "mount -o loop " to examine an iso. That's a wonderful find - thanks very much - I never knew the bsdtar version even existed - very useful.

You can also examine ISO files with Dolphin via Ark. You can do the same with Nautilus. Plus mc handles ISO files too.

bgeddy · 04-03-2011, 03:06 AM

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No need to install an external program to look at an ISO content. You have the cdrtools for that already.

Thanks Eric - I didn't know cdrtools had those abilities.

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You can also examine ISO files with Dolphin via Ark. You can do the same with Nautilus. Plus mc handles ISO files too.

Thanks for the reply - I know about using Dolphin and midnight commander to do this but sometimes I want to get the archive contents in a script or something so the bsdtar is very useful. I'm just used to my old habits from years ago and one of those was always to "mount -o loop -t iso9660 myiso.iso /mnt/dvd" so it just sort of comes naturally. I like the quick CLI way of using bsdtar or isoinfo and will start using them a lot. Thanks to all who replied.

gargamel · 04-03-2011, 03:53 AM

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Originally Posted by audriusk

cmus console music player. As they advertise it: small, fast and powerful. Also with vi-like keyboard shortcuts and command line.

Just tried it, and have to say, that I truly like it!
Nice little thread, here!

gargamel

phi11ip · 04-03-2011, 04:34 AM

My find of the year is rsync. Have used it in the past with instructions from others. Now I've read the manual - what a quick, powerful and flexible tool this is - Absolutely awesome!