Your favorite Linux command/program

[rockytriton]

ok, here's my cool little script for replacing versions of my .jar files in all config files and scripts:

#!/bin/sh

SCRIPTS=`find . -name "*.*" -exec grep -l "$1" {} \;`

for file in $SCRIPTS
do
        echo "Editing $file...";
        (cat $file; echo '') | sed 's/'$1'/'$2'/g' > ${file}.tmp;
        sleep 1;
        mv ${file}.tmp $file;
done;

oh, and by the way, here's a link to my unix shell scripting tutorial if anyone cares to check it out: http://www.dreamsyssoft.com/unix-she...g/tutorial.php

[alexander]

here's my way of doing it:
dispatch-conf
so, um 8 lines vs 1, i win

[rockytriton]

bash: dispatch-conf: command not found

[alexander]

thats because one, you dont have dispatch conf installed, two you dont have a distro with a package management system therefore you can't install dispatch-conf as far as i can remember its a portage util...

:P pbttt

[rockytriton]

ok, anyway, I doubt they have a version build for AIX, and anyway, I run it as one line since I wrote it as a shell script, so I still win :P

[alexander]

nope, I do, because i did not have to write a script and it does loads of stuff then blindfully replace stuff in config files, so pbttt I have a more powerful tool that i didnt have to write, and it is one line per execution, and therefore i win.
Actually have a patch for it that makes dispatch-conf a lot more powerful, friend wrote it, allows you to do real cool stuff...

[rockytriton]

ok, ok, I say we just take out the yard stick and get this over with!

[alexander]

that would be quite ok, work-wise i win, but still its a nifty script for people to read through
whoever said that bash isnt powerful, must be a fanatic of Bill Gates

[alexander]

another cool tool is pf(which i prefer to iptables, but iptables is all we got in linux ) and snort, also dont forget nmap and ettercap(if netcat is "the swiss army knife" of network security then ettercap is a swiss army knife that makes you coffee in the morning, fixes your car and builds your house for you)

[Killean]

cat
vim
ls -l
cd
emerge -va