CentOS - Feb 2021 - menu apps like make menu config

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



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Christopher Wensink
IS Administrator
Five Star Plastics, Inc
1339 Continental Drive
Eau Claire, WI 54701
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cwensink at five-star-plastics.com
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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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    Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it