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(13) Other Useful Commands

Other Useful Commands

Process control

xload: Shows machine load (# of ready-to-run processes)
ps: list processes
top: show top processes
kill: send a signal to a process
nice: start a process at low priority

People

who: show who is logged in
finger: show information about a user

Mail

mail, Mail: basic Unix mailers
pine: screen oriented menu-driven mail interface
thunderbird: graphical IMAP client from Mozilla Foundation

Printing

lpr: send a file to a printer
lpq: check spool queue status
lprm: remove a job from the print queue
pr: format for printing (text)
enscript: format text and images for postscript printing

Network

firefox: graphical web browser from Mozilla Foundation
sftp,ftp: transfer files. sftp is encrypted, built on ssh. ftp is plain text and no longer recommended
ssh,telnet,rlogin: remote login. ssh is encrypted. telnet is plain text
talk: interactive chat
irc: internet relay chat -- multiuser talk

Text processing

nedit,emacs: Text editors using X windows
vi,emacs,joe,pico: editors using text-only
nroff: text formatter
TeX,LaTeX: typesetting
aspell: spell checker

Image processing and manipulation, Graphics

xv: X image processing
GIMP: X image processing
Photoshop: X image processing
pbmplus package: conversion utilties
gnuplot: simple graphics, X or many other (Tek)

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