[Announce] What's Your Favorite Utility?

[David Spoelstra]

Or "dpkg -L coreutils util-linux | grep bin" if you are on Ubuntu!
-David

On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM Bernie Hoefer <LUG-Member at themoreiknow.info>
wrote:

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> Looking towards 2026, Michael Slattery is going to speak on some of the
> cool utilities that he uses during his day-to-day work.
>
> This got us talking.  did you know there are 231 commands that come in
> Fedora Linux's coreutils, util-linux and util-linux-core packages?  (I'm
> sure there are similar numbers in other distributions' equivalent
> packages.)  I sure don't know what many of them do... do you?
>
> So for the Wednesday, February 4, 2026 meeting let's try this:  get at
> least 12 people to pick a utility and give *just a 5 minute talk* on it...
> nothing fancy; there doesn't even have to be slides or anything.  We just
> need 5 minutes of what the utility does, some of its options and examples
> of how to to use it.  So easy, and I think we'll all learn something new
> that night!
>
>
> What do you all say?  Are you up for it?  Who wants to be the 1st to pick
> a utility?  There are 231 to choose from:
>
>   rpm -ql coreutils util-linux util-linux-core | grep bin
>
> :-)
>
> Reply back to cinlug at lists.cinlug.org (not just me) if you want to
> participate, naming which utility you want to briefly speak on.  We just
> need 12 volunteers to fill an hour -- this will be great!
>
> - --
> Bernie Hoefer
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