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Schway Unix Utils User 11/07/15 (Sat) 23:08:59 No.36725

Post solid terminal based *nix applications that follow the Unix philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well. I'll start

Minimodem: "can be used to transfer data between nearby computers using an audio cable (or just via sound waves), or between remote computers using radio, telephone, or another audio communications medium."

http://www.whence.com/minimodem/

CW: Just like it sounds, it encodes and decodes morse code. It will output text (in the form of dots and dashes) or output sound through your audio device.

NetCat: "

In the simplest usage, 'nc host port' creates a TCP connection to the given

port on the given target host. Your standard input is then sent to the host,

and anything that comes back across the connection is sent to your standard

output."

http://nc110.sourceforge.net/

Units: "The 'units' program converts quantities expressed in various scales to their equivalents in other scales."

https://www.gnu.org/software/units/

(Installed by default in most linux distrobutions, you probably already have it)

User 11/08/15 (Sun) 00:49:49 No.36729

>>36725

This is such a pointless thread. It feels like a linux circlejerk.

User 11/08/15 (Sun) 01:13:32 No.36731

>>36729

A linux circlejerk maybe, but what could be more on topic here than simple, useful terminal applications? Besides, *nix is objectively more cyber than windows or osx, is it not?

User 11/08/15 (Sun) 04:43:40 No.36734

>>36725

gdb

:^)

User 11/08/15 (Sun) 13:45:03 No.36753

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>>36725

>netcat

Get out of here. There's literally no reason to use netcat other than using it in your shitty scripts to transfer data (which should be done with scp anyways). Besides, socat is a more powerful tool than netcat.

Here's a list of lesser known but useful programs:

>socat

>pipeview (pv)

>egrep instead of grep

>at (execute something at a specific time, like crontab, but only once)

>The inotify-tools/inotify-hookable packages (watch a file for changes)

>watch (constantly execute program and show differences in output)

>apt-file (search for files through deb packages)

Ya'll will call me a oyabun for this, but I installed Linux in a chroot (via crouton) on a splinter new yet cheap chromebook I got my hands on. (100 EUR for a 260 EUR machine, schway.)

Gonna wipe Chrome OS off it in a bit.

I needed a laptop that was passively cooled and this was the cheapest I could get. A 1.7 Ghz dual core ARMv7 processor with 2 GB of ram is fast enough for me. (Only OpenGL ES, and some libs not available for arm!)

Gets a bit hot, though. Even at 200 Mhz. I get the feeling I need to manually turn down the voltage because Chrome OS isn't smart enough to do that.

Luckily, the PMIC (s5m8767-pmic) and wifi card (anx7808) are both exposed via i2c and the i2c interface is not hidden away. Because why would you? Only nerds run their chromebook in developer mode.

Bump, even though thread is rather shit.

User 11/09/15 (Mon) 06:15:42 No.36792

>>36753

Thanks chummer, I had never heard of socat, and watch is perfect to use with xfce's command output applet.

It's a better thread than burritos :^)

User 11/09/15 (Mon) 08:47:06 No.36804

>>36731

Not really, no.

User 11/09/15 (Mon) 18:56:07 No.36817

>>36804

Linux is free as in beer, free as in beer is cyber.

Linux is free as in libre, free as in libre is cyber.

Linux is niche, hackable, customizable, and allows you to interact with your hardware more directly when it comes to everyday tasks especially. Not to mention how vastly superior linux's terminal is to CMD, or even powershell for that matter, and terminals are about as cyber as you can get.

User 11/12/15 (Thu) 19:56:56 No.36939

>>36725

lynx

User 11/13/15 (Fri) 01:43:01 No.36947

Tomb.

I love Tomb.

User 11/14/15 (Sat) 06:44:08 No.37006

>>36817

>Linux is free as in beer

>Linux is free as in libre

But what if I don't care if it's free, but still want the cyber aspect?

>Linux is niche

I don't care about being a hipster though.

>hackable

Isn't every system that allows you access to a terminal?

>customizable

You do realize you can customize other systems too right?

>vastly superior linux's Terminal is to CMD, or even powershell

Cygwin for windows. 'Nuff said.

User 11/14/15 (Sat) 12:58:04 No.37016

>>37006

>But what if I don't care if it's free, but still want the cyber aspect?

What?

>Isn't every system that allows you access to a terminal?

Confirmed for never hacking GNU/Linux. Or Windows, for that matter.

>You do realize you can customize other systems too right?

Confirmed for never customizing Windows.

>Cygwin for windows. 'Nuff said.

>You need to install *GNU/Linux for Windows" in order to make it usable

But of course, videogames are cyberpunk, and that makes Windows the most cyberpunk OS of them all, amirite? :^)

User 11/14/15 (Sat) 16:55:34 No.37026

>>37006

With Linux you can edit the source code to make it do what you want. That's what hackable means.

With Windows only microsoft and NSA have that ability.

Windows is extremely complex underneath and difficult to customize in any meaningful way. There are glitches dating back to the year 2000 that have not been dealt with.

Cygwin is good but is not a replacement for Unix. There are a lot of things missing and behavior isn't exactly what you'd expect from a Unix machine. It's also slower because the NT kernel is garbage. Don't forget the insane permissions scheme and the way that Windows stores your password in plaintext when you log in. If you're stuck with Windows it's the best option, but that's void in the case of a personal computer.

User 11/14/15 (Sat) 23:03:35 No.37042

>Minimodem

I literally just read about a similar tactic by advertising companies, their apps emit ultrasonic chirps as an ID, and if other devices pick it up then that ID can be associated with whatever device picked it up, or something like that.

Like your phone might not be associated with your computer, until you install one of their apps and your computer starts emitting chirps, which your phone picks up and sends back to the server, so now they can associate your computer with your phones account as well.

Sorry for being off topic.

User 11/14/15 (Sat) 23:37:28 No.37043

>>37042

That's very interesting, do you have a link?