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5 | %general-entities;
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6 | ]>
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8 | <!--
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9 | $LastChangedBy$
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10 | $Date$
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11 | -->
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12 |
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13 | <chapter id="cmdline" xreflabel="Command Line Tools">
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14 | <?dbhtml filename="cmdline.html"?>
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15 |
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16 | <title>Command Line Tools</title>
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17 |
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18 | <para>These tools are recommended for all systems.</para>
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19 |
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20 | <para>Openssh provides both an ssh client and a server. Setting
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21 | up a server allows logging into the system from another system allowing
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22 | control, including building of additional packages, from a full
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23 | graphical environment.</para>
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24 |
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25 | <para>Wget allows retrieval of packages from the command line.</para>
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26 |
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27 | <para>Make-ca provides for installing security certificates of well
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28 | known certificate authorities so applications can properly authenticate
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29 | entities such as an https:// URL across an untrusted network.</para>
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30 |
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31 | <para>Sudo allows otherwise untrusted users to run commands that
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32 | require administrative privileges. It is a convenient alternative
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33 | to the su command.</para>
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34 |
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35 | <para>Which is a convenient utility that shows the full path to a
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36 | command.</para>
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37 |
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38 | <para>Unzip is an extraction utility for zip files. It's function is
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39 | similar to gzip. gzip2, and xz that were installed in LFS.</para>
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40 |
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41 | <para>Links is a text mode WWW browser. Text mode browsers are
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42 | very fast and can be used before a graphical environment is installed.
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43 | </para>
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44 |
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45 | <para>Mailx is a a command-line Mail User Agent (MUA). It is especially
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46 | useful for sending mail messages in scripts.</para>
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47 |
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48 | <note>
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49 | <para>
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50 | When building BLFS packages, manny will require the installation of
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51 | dependent packages before that are built. See <xref linkend='dependencies'/>
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52 | to help decide which dependent packages you need.
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53 | </para>
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54 | </note>
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55 |
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56 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="&xinclude;" href="postlfs/security/openssh.xml"/>
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57 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="&xinclude;" href="networking/netprogs/wget.xml"/>
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58 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="&xinclude;" href="postlfs/security/make-ca.xml"/>
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59 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="&xinclude;" href="postlfs/security/sudo.xml"/>
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60 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="&xinclude;" href="general/sysutils/which.xml"/>
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61 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="&xinclude;" href="general/sysutils/unzip.xml"/>
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62 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="&xinclude;" href="networking/textweb/links.xml"/>
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63 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="&xinclude;" href="networking/mailnews/mailx.xml"/>
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64 |
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65 | </chapter>
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