Command Line: MPlayer and MEncoder Video and audio players for the shell

Nov 12, 2008

MPlayer and MEncoder have considerable potential, and you can control them by means of intelligent command-line options. We’ll put both programs to work.

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Newsbeuter 1.0: RSS Feed Reader for Text Terminals and Podcasts

Aug 21, 2008

On August 20, developer Andreas Krennmair announced the official release of Newsbeuter, the “mutt of RSS feed readers.”

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Command Line: Process Control Process and job control

Jul 31, 2008

What is happening on your Linux machine? Various shell commands give you details about system processes and help you control them.

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Lynis Shell Skript Checks Unix Security

Jul 16, 2008

The first step towards improving a system's security, is discovering the status quo. Lynis, a small command line program helps users do so.

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ntfsprogs Exploring the ntfsprogs toolset

Jul 15, 2008

The ntfsprogs toolset lets you manage NTFS resources from the Linux command line.

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Command Line: Diffutils The Diffutils tool collection

Jul 11, 2008

The Diffutils tool set helps you compare text files, discover and display the differences between files, and even automatically synchronize files.

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Command Line: make Handling of complex tasks with make

Jul 11, 2008

Developers, LaTeX users, and system administrators can all harness the power of make.

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Command Line: FTP and NcFTP FTP and NcFTP

Jul 10, 2008

FTP and NcFTP are both FTP clients for the command line. While FTP only has basic file transfer functionality, NcFTP has a whole bunch of additional features.

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