The Tool Shed

Page last modified Mon Jan 31 15:06:21 2005

What is this?

The Tool Shed is for short and informal articles describing tools and how to use them. The general format is very simple:

• Section 1: The intro story, presenting the problem and ending with a solution described
• Section 2: The technical part, how the solution works
• Section 3: The short exit story, with lead-ins to future stories

/bin and /usr/bin

Tools that are generally included with modern Unix variants

• leave (29 Apr 2003)
• bash history shortcuts (28 Aug 2003)
• bash performance (28 Aug 2003)

/usr/local/bin

Tools that are usually considered to be a third-party package

• ClusterIt (25 Apr 2003)
• Network audio system (NAS) (31 Jan 2005)