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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Which Linux tool or command is surprisingly simple, powerful, and yet underrated?" (lemmy.ml)

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Which Linux command or utility is simple, powerful, and surprisingly unknown to many people or used less often?

This could be a command or a piece of software or an application.

For example I'm surprised to find that many people are unaware of Caddy, a very simple web server that can make setting up a reverse proxy incredibly easy.

Another example is fzf. Many people overlook this, a fast command-line fuzzy finder. It’s versatile for searching files, directories, or even shell history with minimal effort.

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[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Pandoc, FFMpeg, ImageMagick

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

FFMpeg Simple and underrated? Not sure about that.

[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was surprise to learn that we couldn't remove remove metadata from video zith exiftool but have to use ffmpeg

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah ffmpeg is powerful but far from easy to master and get It right when working with encoding.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

Not in and of itself, but I find that I have a handful of common tricks that I can put into aliases. Also, there's ffmpeg.app!

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

I only use it for simple things

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago

similar to ImageMagick, jpegtran is great for lossless jpeg transformations. You can even extend jpegs using the "crop" function, which can be very useful for batch-processing images, even though it's hardcoded to middle grey.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190717052618/https://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/jpeg-lossless-extend.html