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.

  • menas@lemmy.wtf
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    2 days ago

    I was surprise to learn that we couldn’t remove remove metadata from video zith exiftool but have to use ffmpeg

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      37 minutes ago

      Yeah ffmpeg is powerful but far from easy to master and get It right when working with encoding.