network
netcat : NC(1) BSD General Commands Manual NC(1) nc — arbitrary TCP and UDP connections and listens
ping : 6 send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
nmcli : – commandline tool for controlling NetworkManager
telnet : user interface to the TELNET protocol
sftp : secure file transfer program
openssl : OpenSSL command line tool
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shell
busybox : The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
gnome-terminal : is a terminal emulation application.
which : locate a command
fusermount : mount and unmount FUSE filesystems
watch : execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
locale : specific information.
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filesystem
resize2fs : ext2/ext3/ext4 file system resizer
fsck : check and repair a Linux filesystem
chown : change file owner and group
passwd : change user password
mkfs : build a Linux filesystem
rename : renames multiple files
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programming
strace : trace system calls and signals
MAKEDEV : create devices
busybox : The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
startpar : start runlevel scripts in parallel
find : search for files in a directory hierarchy
killall5 : - send a signal to all processes.
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file
egrep : , fgrep, rgrep print lines matching a pattern
hexdump : , hd ASCII, decimal, hexadecimal, octal dump
passwd : change user password
su : change user ID or become superuser
mkfs.ext2 : create an ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem
ping : 6 send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
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graphic manipulation
start-stop-daemon : start and stop system daemon programs
gimp : an image manipulation and paint program.
mkntfs : create an NTFS file system
dvipos : compute positions in a DVI file
grap2graph : convert a grap diagram into a cropped bitmap image
rmsgmerge : Extract translatable string from given input ruby script files.
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database
mysqlimport : a data import program
mysqld_safe : MySQL server startup script
nm-tool : utility to report NetworkManager state and devices
telnet : user interface to the TELNET protocol
arch : print machine hardware name (same as uname -m)
rmsgmerge : Extract translatable string from given input ruby script files.
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X
gnome-terminal : is a terminal emulation application.
xfreerdp : FreeRDP X11 client
nohup : run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
svlc : , nvlc, rvlc, cvlc the VLC media player
xsetpointer : set an X Input device as the main pointer
pdb3.3 : the Python debugger
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package management
aptd : package managing daemon proving a D-Bus interface
lame : create mp3 audio files
start-stop-daemon : start and stop system daemon programs
pnmenlarge : read a portable anymap and enlarge it N times
dpkg-deb : Debian package archive (.deb) manipulation tool
dpkg-maintscript-helper : works around known dpkg limitations in maintainer scripts
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printer
ghostscript : Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer)
ppdc : cups ppd compiler
pdb3.3 : the Python debugger
start-stop-daemon : start and stop system daemon programs
gnome-session : Start the GNOME desktop environment
foomatic-ppd-to-xml :
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text manipulation
gedit : text editor for the GNOME Desktop
pdb3.3 : the Python debugger
cweave : translate CWEB to C and/or TeX
view : Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
xmlpatterns :
fgrep : , rgrep print lines matching a pattern
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privacy
passwd : change user password
airtun-ng : a virtual tunnel interface creator for aircrack-ng
update-grub : stub for grub-mkconfig
avconv : avconv video converter
pdb3.3 : the Python debugger
gzexe : compress executable files in place
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sound manipulation
audacity : Graphical cross-platform audio editor
gst-launch-1.0 : build and run a GStreamer pipeline
avconv : avconv video converter
pdb3.3 : the Python debugger
sha1sum : compute and check SHA1 message digest
jack_evmon :
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Access Control List
su : change user ID or become superuser
MAKEDEV : create devices
update-grub : stub for grub-mkconfig
uic :
start-stop-daemon : start and stop system daemon programs
nohup : run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
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file compression
pdb3.3 : the Python debugger
scp-dbus-service :
file-roller : archive manager for GNOME
lzcat : Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files
airtun-ng : a virtual tunnel interface creator for aircrack-ng
nohup : run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
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boot settings
airtun-ng : a virtual tunnel interface creator for aircrack-ng
loadunimap : load the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table
lame : create mp3 audio files
sha1sum : compute and check SHA1 message digest
gst-launch-1.0 : build and run a GStreamer pipeline
tcmp3cut :
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text editor
sha1sum : compute and check SHA1 message digest
view : Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
bibtex.original : make a bibliography for (La)TeX
lame : create mp3 audio files
loadunimap : load the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table
find : search for files in a directory hierarchy
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webserver
a2ensite : enable or disable an apache2 site / virtual host
ping : 6 send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
start-stop-daemon : start and stop system daemon programs
dh_installppp : install ppp ip-up and ip-down files
spd-conf : A simple tool for basic configuration of Speech Dispatcher and problem diagnostics
gst-launch-1.0 : build and run a GStreamer pipeline
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font
spd-conf : A simple tool for basic configuration of Speech Dispatcher and problem diagnostics
debugfs : ext2/ext3/ext4 file system debugger
ofm2opl : convert Omega and TeX font-metric files to property-list files
passwd : change user password
cweave : translate CWEB to C and/or TeX
mft : translate Metafont or MetaPost code to TeX code for prettyprinting
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airtun-ng : a virtual tunnel interface creator for aircrack-ng
gst-launch-1.0 : build and run a GStreamer pipeline
passwd : change user password
cweave : translate CWEB to C and/or TeX
find : search for files in a directory hierarchy
thunderbird : Mail User Agent (MUA) and newsgroup/RSS client for X11 derived from the Mozilla suite.
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Media Player
nohup : run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
ping : 6 send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
subtitle2pgm :
svlc : , nvlc, rvlc, cvlc the VLC media player
spd-conf : A simple tool for basic configuration of Speech Dispatcher and problem diagnostics
update-grub : stub for grub-mkconfig
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virtualization
lame : create mp3 audio files
loadunimap : load the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table
sha1sum : compute and check SHA1 message digest
innochecksum : offline InnoDB file checksum utility
ping : 6 send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
start-stop-daemon : start and stop system daemon programs
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