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.