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.
As someone who has to do installs and admin a lot at work I’m constantly dealing with yum/dnf. I cry when I have to work with AIX.
Don’t run
killallon aix before reading the man page!It sounds scary lol
We install
dnfon our AIX boxes. Works okayish.I tried grabbing it and couldn’t even get it to install. If you have a link to a good install…
I can’t find the docs I followed, but this seems to be more or less the same process: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6585774
There are version-specific AIX Toolbox installation scripts, so make sure you’ve got the right version (
oslevelshould help).I think the version issues blocked me. I’ve put the toolbox on some of our test systems but dnf seems to be excluded from it. I’d probably have to build it.
What is AIX
An OS used by IBM on their mainframes. I have to work with it because some big orgs, especially financial and gov, still use it and run our apps on it.
Maybe it’s the old IBM AIX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX