Linux has hundreds of them, in the various bin directories. Many are interesting.
This shell snippet lists all the directories in $PATH, using less, so you can page through them:
for dir in `echo $PATH | sed 's/:/ /g'`
do
echo Listing dir: $dir
ls -l $dir | nl
done | less
I came across the watch command recently, which seems useful, and wrote something like it in Python:
A Python version of the Linux watch command:
https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2018/05/a-python-version-of-linux...
I've also been writing Python versions of some other Linux commands, and will post about them here some time later.
Also, for saving (and then viewing) man pages (about commands or other topics), without the formatting characters (such as ^H), on some Linux distros, I find this useful:
m, a Unix shell utility to save cleaned-up man pages as text:
https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/03/m-unix-shell-utility-to-s...
This shell snippet lists all the directories in $PATH, using less, so you can page through them:
I came across the watch command recently, which seems useful, and wrote something like it in Python:A Python version of the Linux watch command:
https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2018/05/a-python-version-of-linux...
I've also been writing Python versions of some other Linux commands, and will post about them here some time later.
Also, for saving (and then viewing) man pages (about commands or other topics), without the formatting characters (such as ^H), on some Linux distros, I find this useful:
m, a Unix shell utility to save cleaned-up man pages as text:
https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/03/m-unix-shell-utility-to-s...