Which Linux command or utility is simple, powerful, and surprisingly unknown to many people or used less often?
This could be a command or a piece of software or an application.
For example I’m surprised to find that many people are unaware of Caddy, a very simple web server that can make setting up a reverse proxy incredibly easy.
Another example is fzf. Many people overlook this, a fast command-line fuzzy finder. It’s versatile for searching files, directories, or even shell history with minimal effort.
FFMpeg Simple and underrated? Not sure about that.
I was surprise to learn that we couldn’t remove remove metadata from video zith
exiftool
but have to use ffmpegNot in and of itself, but I find that I have a handful of common tricks that I can put into aliases. Also, there’s ffmpeg.app!
I only use it for simple things