Name a Linux command you recently found useful.

Comments

[Tanvesh Takawale]

I was looking for the config of my cpu so lscpu was easier than going through the settings and looking it up.

[David Walz]

Gives you the CPU model name and everything, pretty cool.

[Michael Francis]

ncdu has been really useful for my linux based NAS

[David Walz]

Disk usage analyzer, nice. I haven't used this yet. I've only used df. Ncdu looks good.

[Brian]

ripgrep
lnav
fdfind
vgrep
dunst

[JUIC#801]

Lemme know how you use dunst. I just let it do its thing with my i3 setup but it would be cool to learn how to use it in meaningful ways.

[David Walz]

ripgrep looks super fast

[Brian]

It's ridiculously unbelievably fast honestly. There's also ripgrep-all that searches even more filetypes, including a slew of binary times that's still a berjillion time faster than grep.

[Fardeen Khan]

I like to use where a lot