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.

  • DigitalDilemmaEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Sorry, I should have explained that. it’s command | yes yes|command - Eg, yes|apt-get update (Not a great example since apt-get has -y, but sometimes that fails when prompting for new keys to accept)

    Edit: I got it backwards, thanks @lengau@midwest.social for the correction.

    • lengau@midwest.social
      9·
      3 days ago

      You’ve got it backwards - you need to pipe the output of yes into the input of the command:

      yes | command-that-asks-a-lot-of-questions