Tree command

To give a structured view of directories. Now if you pipe grep command, may be to find out an unwanted file, that’s so cool!

tree folderpath | grep unwantedfileName

Brace Expansion

To generate sequences of text. Think of it like meta programming, programming on programming!

touch file{1..3}.txt

# This runs as touch file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt

Repeating execution

Using watch - the following command displays the current date and time every second.

watch -n 1 date

Comparisons

The next one, diff command - my favourite. Comparing two files.

diff file1.txt file2.txt

Funny hack pattern

Some interesting pattern about commands are, you reverse the command name, the functionality gets reversed. For example, tac command displays the contents in reverse order.

cat file.txt
# normal order

tac file.txt
# reverse order

Will share some more, as I keep learning! Have fun!