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Productivity tools for Linux administrators

Summary

Kartikeya Maheshwari brings together command line tools and ways of working that speed up searching, navigation, processing and repeatable system work. The material is from the LISA19 conference. USENIX publishes the presentation as a PDF.

Ideas

  • fzf adds interactive fuzzy selection to existing commands.
  • ripgrep searches large file trees with sensible ignore rules.
  • jq filters structured JSON data without fragile text splitting.
  • tmux keeps several terminal sessions alive across dropped connections.

Insights

  • Productivity comes more often from composable tools than from large individual applications.
  • Fast feedback improves both exploration and fault analysis.
  • Personal shortcuts become more valuable when they are documented and portable.

Facts

  • Many of the tools presented are free software.

Recommendations

  • Only automate recurring sequences of commands after stable manual use.
  • Keep your shell configuration and your own helper scripts under version control.

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