Top Ten Curiously Useful Linux commands.
Ok, so you know grep, awk and sed. You can ls and cd your way anywhere on your computer. You can even eject your cdrom by typing several letters instead of pressing one button. But here's a fresh*,new**, and perhaps even slightly humorous take on several of your all time favorites.
10. mplayer
Mplayer is the end-all for video. With upwards of seven kazillion command line options, there's almost nothing you cannot do. Want to encode a file? Sure! Play a DVD? Why not! Output in coloured text instead of pixels? Absolutely! Run a small country? Well, maybe if you used mplayer and grep really cleverly...
9. killall -9
Ever really, REALLY want a program to go away? killall -9 is your new best friend. It'll take down that program. It doesn't matter if it's Gaim, Firefox, or a copy of MySQL that's serving thousands of requests per minute. It's going down, and it's going down now.
8. split
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