On 2/19/21 4:00 PM, Christopher Wensink wrote:
> Good morning everyone,
>
> While vi, cat more or less can work (see what I did there..) for looking at every day Linux Administration, sometimes I think it's just easier to work with a menu based interface, where you can select and navigate messages and options, with a little bit of color, possibly function key interaction, and a working interface, similar to using make menuconfig for compiling the kernel and similar to performing a legacy text based install on a new system. Is there a master list of those kinds of apps that have a menu for looking at various things? Can anyone who thinks of more of these apps rattle off some other options such as:
>
> abc - for reading logs
> xyz for text based chat
> def - for a menu based browser
> ghi - for a text mail client, etc
mc (midnight commander) for file copy/move/delete/read/edit/... (also: standalone commands mcview, mcedit)
Regards.
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