README.md

Useful Tools - 17 Aug 2017 - James Tocknell and Wilfred Gee

Wilfred and James have built up a collection of tools we commonly use, here some of them.

Shells, remote access and SSH

• tmux/screen/byobu
• mosh
• sshfs
• zsh / oh-my-zsh

Also see the MQ Physics wiki for how to setup remote access.

Scripts and Small Tools

• woof
• ncdu
• htop
• rename
• locate/mlocate/dlocate
• ack/ag
• cron

Linux only tools

• qalculate
• libnotify/notify-send - see growl for MacOS
• redshift
• axi-cache
• apt-listbugs/apt-changelog

Version control tools

• vcsh
• git-annex
• etckeeper
• myrepos

Document tools

• latexmk
• pandoc
• atool

Image Tools

• potrace
• inkscape
• geeqie

Useful Tips

Tab Completion!

Get in the habit of always using tab completion. It makes you faster, stronger, smarter.