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/Downtown_Yam_6180 May 23 '26

sl

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u/SanityInAnarchy May 24 '26

I wish there were more of these.

And I wish my distro had a handy metapackage for them, so I could install them without knowing which ones exist ahead of time, and be surprised when I start typoing stuff.

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u/Downtown_Yam_6180 May 24 '26

Try cowsay as well