My little toolbox

I just finished reading an article on Linux.com that talks about useful tools that a system administrator uses. This is a great article to read and glean if you are doing any system administration with your PHP development. At work and as a contractor I can only stress the importance that a developer needs to be familiar with system administration. You can check out the article here.

Here are some command line tools that i use almost on a daily bases to help out with system administration tasks.

• find
• xargs
• sed
• awk
• nmap
• netstat
• bash shell scripting
• column
• expand
• split
• comm
• sort
• diff
• dig
• dsplit
• du
• df
• free
• grep
• screen

These are just some of the ones that I use. One point I would like to make is that by becoming familiar with additional commands you will start to become more proficient in your system admin tasks; obviously resulting in a sharper developer.

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