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.

  • corsicanguppyEnglish
    13·
    4 days ago
    • xargs
    • parallel
    • PXE (ohai cobbler)
    • tee
    • task-spooler (ts aka tsp)
    • rpm -V

    Nothing new, just forgotten.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 days ago

      task-spooler (ts aka tsp)

      This looks amazing. Do you know how well it works in dispatching and tracking jobs over remote servers (over SSH)?

      • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        3 days ago

        We’ve been using tsp at my work for years and it works well. It is just a very basic queueing system so if you can run the job from the command line then you can run it via tsp.

        Our workflow is to have concurrent jobs run on the remote servers with cron and tsp but you should be able to trigger remote jobs over SSH also if you prefer to have a single machine in charge of task allocation.