FREE Utility Grab-Bag

Enough the posts about how bad the industry or overall economy is. How about some FREE stuff? You can't pass that up (especially in this economy ;-).

Therefore, I'm highlighting a few useful commands or utility packages that an engineer might use regularly. I plan to follow this up with a post on useful free EDA packages. My "go-to" utilities are

screen

think of it as "text VNC". lightweight and low bandwith. Hey, most of what we do in VNC is textual anyway, right?

putty

rock-solid terminal client to access *nix from Windows

truecrypt

free industrial-strength encryption. Because you'd hate to have your USB drive or notebook PC data fall into the wrong hands.

xargs

*nix command to process a list (e.g., of file names) piped from another command