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David Walz
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Name a Linux command you recently found useful.

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Michael Francis •

ncdu has been really useful for my linux based NAS

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David Walz •

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

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Tanvesh Takawale • • Edited

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

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David Walz •

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

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Brian •

ripgrep
lnav
fdfind
vgrep
dunst

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JUIC#801 • • Edited

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.

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David Walz •

ripgrep looks super fast

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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.

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Fardeen Khan •

I like to use where a lot