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| 13 | <chapter id="cmdline" xreflabel="Command Line Tools">
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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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