Article by
Casper Manes.
In today's post we're going to take a closer look at 23
cmd-line tools that I find absolutely vital as a Windows sysadmin,
Exchange admin, and general trouble-shooter. Each is free as in
beer, many are free as in speech, and all can just sit somewhere in
your path to be invoked at need.
I tried to decide whether to sort by use (too hard,) or
favourite (Sophie's choice!,) or category (too many are
multitaskers,) and finally just decided that alphabetical was the
way to go. So, in no particular order other than the classical
Latin alphabet, here are the top 26 cmd-line tools on my
computer.
1. Dig
Call me old-school on this one, but I just like dig better than
I do nslookup. Maybe it's the familiarity with it, or that it
works the same on Windows and Linux, but this tool for querying DNS
servers in invaluable. While I may not use it every day, I
definitely use it multiple times per week. You can download dig as
a part of the BIND for
