Godot's Useful Helper Programs And Tools

# the most useful and userfriendly introductory to unix commands, both for beginners and advanced users can be found at http://linux.about.com/?once=true&
# flip can be used to convert text files in the current directory and below from unix format (linefeed, 0x0a, LF) to windows format (carriage return + linefeed, 0x0d0a, CRLF):
```
 find . -type f -exec flip -d {} \; 
```
# flip can be used to convert text files in the current directory and below from windows format (carriage return + linefeed, 0x0d0a, CRLF) to unix format (linefeed, 0x0a, LF):
```
 find . -type f -exec flip -u {} \; 
```
# clean up an html page:
```
 tidy 
```
# reformat paragraphs in a text file:
```
 par 
```
# reformat a text file:
```
 fmt 
```
# what the fuck decodes acronyms:
```
 wtf wtf; wtf afaik 
```
# one-line information on many commands and programs:
```
 whatis whatis 
```
# more extensive information on a particular commands or item:
```
 man whatis 
```
# helpful information on built-in commands of the current shell (most probably bash):
```
 help help 
```

# fun with ascii art:

 for a in /usr/share/cowsay/cows/*cow;do fortune -s|cowsay -f $a;done|less

# and -- the auto nice daemon: automatically renices cpu-demanding processes
```
 sudo apt-get install and 
```
# kile -- a very user-friendly LaTeX front-end
# Dictionary lookup:
```
 dict term 
```
# Fortune cookies matching a specific pattern:
```
 fortune -i -m pattern 
```
# Gnome-based hex editor
```
 ghex2 
```
# List information on all open files that belong to all active processes, the status of the modules currently available to the kernel, a quick overview (interrupts, ioports, dma) on the currently installed hardware, the currently installed pci devices, and the currently active usb devices:
```
lsof; lsmod; lsdev; lspci; lsusb 
```
# Network load overview:
```
 netload eth0 -t 5 
```
# finding out which type of machine you are working on:
```
 uname -a 
```

# finding out some interesting information on a particular host or machine:

 nslookup -querytype=any hostname.domain.org
 whois --verbose ipaddress
 host -a hostname.domain.org nameserver.org

the following link provides very useful information on various frequently used unix commands: introduction to various unix tools