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If you could pick five commands/tools to have with you to admin a system, what would they be?

What is the difference between this question and "name your favourite ..." (except you name only 5 of them here) ? — Rook, Jun 01 '09 at 22:54
@d03boy - actually, they may have electricity - they just don't have people. — Rook, Jun 02 '09 at 09:25

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:01

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bash
cat

Everything else is just window dressing ;-)

answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:01

Matt Simmons

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Rook · Answer 2 · 2009-06-02T21:25:33.203

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vim
perl
knife
swimming shorts / hawaiian shirt
Claudia Schiffer

edited Jun 02 '09 at 21:25

answered Jun 01 '09 at 22:57

Rook

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+1 - Good call on the shorts / shirt. I also would have accepted "satellite internet terminal" or "Summer Glau" – Matt Simmons Jun 01 '09 at 23:21
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+1 for Summer Glau :-) – drybjed Jun 02 '09 at 00:39
I'll diff manually. – Rook Jun 02 '09 at 21:29

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 01 '09 at 20:59

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vim
patch
diff
sponge
sed

answered Jun 01 '09 at 20:59

Mez

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:19

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debug.com - If you can't do everything with debug, well, I guess you're probably getting real work done.

answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:19

jasonrm

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:22

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perl
apt-get
du
vim
top

answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:22

chaos

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:22

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perl
lsof
find
grep
telnet

answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:22

Jeff Tang

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:25

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For a windows box:

powershell
process explorer
telnet
notepad
mmc

answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:25

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Jun 04 '09 at 19:36

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In a *nix world, I'd have to pick:

vim
curl
perl
bash
apache

answered Jun 04 '09 at 19:36

ericslaw

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:15

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In the Windows world:

Sysinternals Process Explorer
grep (yes, on Windows)
WinRAR
Console2
My coffee maker

answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:15

squillman

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:21

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Depends hugely on the system, but for a general Windows one.

Firefox
Wireshark
Process Explorer
Netcat
Cain

answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:21

Dentrasi

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:31

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lsof
ps
ls
vi
ip

answered Jun 01 '09 at 21:31

ZaphodB

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Jun 01 '09 at 22:26

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Debian netinst CD
network connection

That's how I setup all my servers anyway...

answered Jun 01 '09 at 22:26

drybjed

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Jun 01 '09 at 22:30

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aptitude
autotools
vim
gcc
curl

answered Jun 01 '09 at 22:30

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score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Jun 02 '09 at 20:24

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rsync lsof vim find ssh

answered Jun 02 '09 at 20:24

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Jun 04 '09 at 20:41

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sh
vim
ssh
git
awk

Interaction, editing, communication, control, automation... what else could you need?

answered Jun 04 '09 at 20:41

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