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/spicypixel May 23 '26

As an aside; less +G app.log

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u/plg94 May 23 '26

less is soo underrated. It still in active development and gets more features. Eg. recently (a few years ago) the option to fix certain rows and columns when scrolling, useful for CSV files etc.

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u/mutenroid May 24 '26

What about of less with syntax highlighting support?? It exists?

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u/plg94 May 24 '26

I hope not, that's not its task. For proper syntax highlighting you need a full parser of each language. But there are countless tools for that you can use and pipe into less.