hpr4544 :: Uncommon Commands, Episode 2

A summary of four commands, mtr, scrot, zless, and last

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Duration: 00:11:49
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Part of the series: general.

Refs:

https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2BSD/man/last.u

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Util-linux&oldid=271104508

https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux/+/612721dba838fe37af543421278416bb7acf770c/login-utils/README.admutil

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-haardt-9087023/details/experience/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterorbaek/details/experience/

https://flameshot.org/

commands:

ping yahoo.com

traceroute -m 100 bad.horse

mtr www.yahoo.com

scrot

flameshot

zless messages.1.gz

bzless messages.1.bz

xzless messages.1.xz

last -10

last reboot

last $USER -10

People involved:

mtr:

Matt Kimball

Roger Wolff

scrot:

Tom Gilbert

zless and related commands:

Paul Eggert

last command:

Howard Katseff

Michael Haardt

Peter Orbaek

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