Comments on: Some Favorite Open Source Utilities http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/01/19/some-favorite-open-source-utilities/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:54:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David Kastrup http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/01/19/some-favorite-open-source-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-5038 David Kastrup Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1317400124#comment-5038 <p>Vi is not what you are talking about: the web site for _that_ is <URL:http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/>. You are talking about vim.</p> Vi is not what you are talking about: the web site for _that_ is . You are talking about vim.

]]> By: bwarrene http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/01/19/some-favorite-open-source-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-5039 bwarrene Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1317400124#comment-5039 <blockquote>Vi is not what you are talking about: the web site for _that_ is <url :http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/>. You are talking about vim. </blockquote> <p>Sorry about the bad link and thanks for the heads up. I have about twenty Vi links and got a little mixed up there! Still - could not live without it! ;>)</p>

Vi is not what you are talking about: the web site for _that_ is . You are talking about vim.

Sorry about the bad link and thanks for the heads up. I have about twenty Vi links and got a little mixed up there! Still – could not live without it! ;>)

]]> By: Don Ritchey http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/01/19/some-favorite-open-source-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-5040 Don Ritchey Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1317400124#comment-5040 <p>For system amdinistration on UNIX or UNIX-like systems, lsof (LiSt Open Files) is a life-saver. lsof will show what files a program has open, to include network connections, shared libraries, pipes, sockets, etc. It is the Swiss Army knife of programmer/administrator tools.<br /> See author Vic Abel's home page for details:<br /> http://people.freebsd.org/~abe/</p> For system amdinistration on UNIX or UNIX-like systems, lsof (LiSt Open Files) is a life-saver. lsof will show what files a program has open, to include network connections, shared libraries, pipes, sockets, etc. It is the Swiss Army knife of programmer/administrator tools.
See author Vic Abel’s home page for details:
http://people.freebsd.org/~abe/

]]> By: Dorsey http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/01/19/some-favorite-open-source-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-5041 Dorsey Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1317400124#comment-5041 <p>Having used vi for more than twenty years, I still find that I can't live without certain functionality, and tend to think in terms of regular expressions. Are the commands arcane? You betcha! Is it extremely powerful for processing raw data ad-hoc? Most definitely!! Sure, vi is old-school, but for certain tasks, nothing else comes close.</p> Having used vi for more than twenty years, I still find that I can’t live without certain functionality, and tend to think in terms of regular expressions. Are the commands arcane? You betcha! Is it extremely powerful for processing raw data ad-hoc? Most definitely!! Sure, vi is old-school, but for certain tasks, nothing else comes close.

]]> By: Dey http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/01/19/some-favorite-open-source-utilities/comment-page-1/#comment-5042 Dey Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1317400124#comment-5042 <p>Just thought you might be interested in this blog too.<br /> http://open-source.onestop.net</p> Just thought you might be interested in this blog too.
http://open-source.onestop.net

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