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Two new tools (for me)

I discovered two nifty new (to me) Linux command-line tools today. Both were simply apt-get-able for me on Intrepid, but I’m sure most distros should have packages. The two are:

  • checkinstall - Which creates .debs (or .rpms) from source tarballs.
  • trickle - Which is a “user-space bandwidth shaper” and allows you to limit the download speed of arbitrary commands (like apt-get for example).

    They are both very very handy!