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Re:Cool, but obscure unix tools by cyphax on Monday January 12, 2015 @03:47AM (#8872962)
I'll quote myself from an earlier thread of a similar list of awesome tools; this one deserves to be in it so much:

An ncurses disk usage analyzer: http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

I find this an extremely handy alternative to du, it's somewhat similar to TreeView on Windows.

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Re:Cool, but obscure unix tools by drinkyouroj on Monday January 12, 2015 @03:57AM (#8872981)
This tool is a must-have for any on-call sysadmin.
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Re:Cool, but obscure unix tools by dozzie on Monday January 12, 2015 @05:59AM (#8873246)
Must-have? Hardly. It's much easier to run `du -sm | sort -n', both of which are already installed everywhere along with coreutils.
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Re:Cool, but obscure unix tools by drinkyouroj on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @10:13PM (#8884062)
Fair enough; "must-have" is a bit strong. But, when I'm responding to a freespace alert on one of 2000-300 servers I've never seen before, the "visualized" data layout is easier to digest than a list of numbers - plus ncdu can drill-down through a directory tree quite nicely.
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Re:Cool, but obscure unix tools by pan69 on Monday January 12, 2015 @03:13AM (#8872912) 

  vim & emacs
Obscure?
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Re:Cool, but obscure unix tools by crypt1d on Monday January 12, 2015 @03:35AM (#8872941)
Depends who you ask, I suppose - I come from sysadmin world so none of these are obscure for me. So I'd say they are mainly less popular with the 'average Joe' user base. Judging by the screenshots, the author seems to be coming from Mac world, where GUI editors appear more popular than vim.
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Re:Cool, but obscure unix tools by a-ghost-fart on Monday January 12, 2015 @03:34AM (#8872936)
Similar to what I thought also with the likes of screen, tmux, curl and the like.
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Re:Cool, but obscure unix tools by sandis on Monday January 12, 2015 @03:35AM (#8872940)
Misleading title. A good portion of tools listed are extremely popular.
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