[myself248]

I keep finding uses for more of the ls family: knew lsusb and lspci for ages, lsof is handy, and most recently I learned lsblk which is always worth using before dd'ing an image onto a disk, etc.

Back in the DOS era, there were few enough files on the system that I could just explore around and learn what everything did. That's no longer practical, but what's the alternative? There doesn't seem to be a "top 100 commands to get familiar with", or whatever. The ss64.com pages are pretty great, but...

[viraptor]

ls /usr/bin

Choose a random entry you don't recognise and open the man page for it. There's not that many on most systems - I mean, there's likely a couple hundred or more, but some are convenience symlinks and many you'll already know.

For things you may not have by default, there's a few "awesome" lists available, like https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps

[avgcorrection]

Hmm, tried that but that directory seems to contain ~3000 files on my old Ubuntu.

[myself248]

1621 on Pop, which is still about 15x more than I can reasonably remember. Hence the whole problem, it's not digestable unless you make digesting it your whole hobby. Ah well. Thanks for confirming, I guess.