Life on the Command Line

[Don Raikes]

Hey,

I have been looking for a list of this stuff too.

You mentioned sc for financial application, but I don't find it anywhere. Is 
it a part of a particular package?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "thomas fisher" <studio1 at commspeed.net>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: Life on the Command Line


> On Friday 28 December 2007 10:35:53 Rosalind Mitchell wrote:
>> Driven by a combination of curiosity, nostalgia (old enough to remember
>> being shown VisiCalc and thinking it a wonder) and natural
>> steampunkishness, I've been investigating ways of running everyday
>> applications from the command line in text sessions.  Using
>> Mutt/Fetchmail/Exim for email, slrn for Usenet, vim and emacs for
>> development, sc for financial work, that sort of thing.
>>
>> How far do others manage to get using text-based applications only?  Any
>> real hidden gems I should be aware of?
>>
>> Rosie
>  Power of the command line? Is that the question? Dig into the multitudes 
> of
> scripts that the GUI users are not even aware of in Linux that make it
> happen. Bash, Tcl/Tk, Perl, Python are just some of that which makes Linux
> hum. Go to a command line and enter  #man init to learn about the little
> magician that empowers the boot sequence. A trip into Bash commands:
> http://www.ss64.com/bash/      is just a beginning.
> Tom
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