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.

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    netstat -tunl shows all open ports on the machine to help diagnose any firewall issues.

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      2 days ago

      netstat is kind of deprecated, ss is more modern (from the iproute2 package) and uses very similar parameters.