• idlethreat (edited 8 years ago)
    +4

    one command soundly missed is apropos. Need to do something, but don't happen to know it's exact name? Well, then. It's time for apropos!

     MacBook-Pro:~ admin$ apropos download
     CPAN(3pm)                - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
     lwp-download(1)          - Fetch large files from the web
     Wget(1)                  - The non-interactive network downloader
     git-fetch(1)             - Download objects and refs from another repository
     git-http-fetch(1)        - Download from a remote Git repository via HTTP
     MacBook-Pro:~ admin$
    

    works on Linux and OSX and it's saved my ass more than once time over the years whenever I knew there was a command to do something, but couldn't think of what it was.