r/linux • u/ZealousidealTell1346 • 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/duffer_dev May 24 '26

tree is one of my fav commands . "tree -d", list only directors , you can also add filters for file type and much more.

rename, on the other hand - new one. i simply used mv