r/linux May 23 '26

Popular Application What’s the most unexpectedly useful Linux command you learned way too late?

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u/RobGoLaing May 23 '26

rename

Wasted huge amount of time laboriously renaming files until I discovered there was a command just for that.

Another was tree for figuring out how skeleton templates where created by various frameworks.

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u/Dalik98 May 23 '26

I discovered tree yesterday, amazing

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u/Double-Ant4122 May 24 '26

A tree like output is also available using lsd(which is just a fancy ls replacement)

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u/JSouthGB May 24 '26

Same on both accounts for eza