dust: better version of du. There's also diskonaut which is an interactive tool.
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xargs
Very true. I used to do magic with xargs when working as a sysadm. Also a good way to mess up on a grand scale. Ask me how I know.
motion
After spending years dealing with shady freeware and junk software on windows, I was floored by how easy and nonchalantly I was able to set up a simple security camera on my PC
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inxi saves you time 90% of the time that you would use for lsXXX commands and grepping. Really useful for quick hardware and kernel module checks.
batcat
It's like cat but better. Great for when you just want to look at the contents of a file, without loading a whole text editor.
Oh also, tldr
My procedure for learning how to use a cli command goes tldr page -> --help if the tldr fails to help me -> THEN the full manpage
I like batcat aka bat, but nominate the humble ‘cat’ instead.
Want to copy a disk image to a device? You can use cat for that: cat file.iso>/dev/sdf
What to copy local stdout over ssh? Use cat.
ls -l | ssh myhost 'cat >out.txt'
That’s simple and surprisingly powerful.
probably well known at this point but rsync is incredible and I use it all the time
paste. I don't think a lot of people know this command, but it can be handy at times
Not powerful, but often useful, column -t aligns columns in all lines. EG
$ echo {a,bb,ccc}{5,10,9999,888} | xargs -n3
a5 a10 a9999
a888 bb5 bb10
bb9999 bb888 ccc5
ccc10 ccc9999 ccc888
$ echo {a,bb,ccc}{5,10,9999,888} | xargs -n3 | column -t
a5 a10 a9999
a888 bb5 bb10
bb9999 bb888 ccc5
ccc10 ccc9999 ccc888
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all of them