Useful tools missing from /rescue

[Daniel Eischen]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Yar Tikhiy wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:18:04AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> Yar Tikhiy wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've had to use /rescue recently and felt lack of a few basic tools
>>> in it, namely pgrep(1), head(1), tail(1), tee(1), and a text filter,
>>> e.g., sed(1).  Well, in fact most functionality of pgrep(1), head(1),
>>> tail(1), and even tee(1) can be emulated if one has sed(1), but the
>>> tools are so tiny and convenient that it's a pity not to have them
>>> all handy during hard times.
>>>
>>> In addition, there are chflags and chmod in /rescue, but there's
>>> no chown in it, so the toolset is a bit incomplete.
>>
>> Oh, my.  chown was definitely an oversight.  That
>> should have been in there.
>>
>> My opinions:
>>  * head, tail, and tee are no-brainers; just do it.
>>  * sed would be a nice addition.  (I atttempted to
>> fit 'vi' in there, but curses is rather finicky;
>> 'sed' would be more useful.)
>
> Thank you for supporting my idea!

I'm surprised no one has mentioned ftp or fetch.  I don't know how
large they would be if static, but if you have to grab some files over
the network, it can be quite convenient.

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DE