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Useful Linux Commands
apropros - Useful for finding “appropriate” commands. i.e., apropros network will show useful commands related to networking.
man - RTM. Read The Manual. Enough said? i.e., man ls will let you read the manual for the command ls.
lshw - list hardware. Needs elevated privileges to properly probe all of the system's hardware. Also useful to pipe the output into a paginator for easy reading. i.e.,
sudo lshw | less will run the command with elevated privileges, then it pipes the output from that command into the text reader command
less.