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
exiftoolbut have to use ffmpegYeah ffmpeg is powerful but far from easy to master and get It right when working with encoding.
Not 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