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There are many cool / useful less-known utilities in GNU / Linux. Check man7.org for good, though brief info on many of them. I had explored many of them a w
by vram22 6y ago
There are many cool / useful less-known utilities in GNU / Linux.
Check man7.org for good, though brief info on many of them.
I had explored many of them a while ago.
Maintained by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface, a kind of reference bible for Linux APIs and system calls.
Edit: many of which are used in making such utilities.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoDon't forget recutils. https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/A-Little-Example.html#A-Little-Example https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/A-Little-Exampl... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recfiles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recfiles
- vram22 6y agoRight, good point. It has also been discussed on HN a few times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=recutils&sort=byPopularity&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- rustyminnow 6y agoHere's the list of coreutils pages for anybody else interested: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_by_project.html#coreutils https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_by_project.html#coreuti...