I would put `who' command higher on the list. I wouldn't bother with all the hash function commands, instead I would spend time getting acquinted with openssl command, which although isn't part of coreutils, is a swiss army knife when it comes to hashing and cryptography and you will most likely get to use it at some point. For example instead of doing `sha256sum <file>' you can do `openssl sha256 <file>'.
At the beginning, he says he'll treat the rating as if you're a beginner Linux user. When he reaches a security-related command, he says if you're a beginner, it's D-tier, but for security professionals it's S-tier, so he puts it in S-tier.
I'm at the md5sum command and believe you should have printed the command name in the video. The tags are way too small. Anyway, looks like a good video to learn new commands.
I felt so stupid to notice the ridiculousness of your premise until 2 min mark. Hat off to you finishing off 30 min long video which seems like a total waste of time. One day I'd LOVE to make the same kind of video. I may put all the commands to the S tier with the exception of `chcon` which I can't believe it belongs to the coreutils.
Personally, `cat` and `dd` must be on SS tier for their versatility. `echo` is overrated as you can use `printf` instead. `install` is really important to know to avoid abusing `cp` and `chown`. And looking back to my career, `cut` and `mkfifo` are my favorites and secret weapons. They are the ones that differentiated myself from others.
I disagree on whoami and groups being higher than id. id is the more flexible option, while those 2 are redundant and longer to write. Even id -u is still shorter than whoami.
For me in my professional career I had to used the “od” command very, very often. So for me it would be in “S” tier. The video was very interesting and informative on how different usage of these tools.
27:34 For D-tier, I'm not sure who "the winner" is (of that tier) ??? …But for A, B, C, & S tiers, I'm pretty confident: C-tier Winner: The stat command. B-tier Winner: The bracketted test command: [ A-tier Winner: The printf command. S-tier Winner: The dd command.
The who command can be pretty useful. I use pam.d to automatically unlock my ZFS on my home NAS. When the user locks out I automatically decrypt the key by checking if the user is logged in once a minute
I'm teaching Linux to my kids. This list is a great go to list to go by as i am choosing what to teach them first. Watching their young minds light up the first time they see a command work is marvelous.
I love everything about this! Nothing lower than “D” tier. Learning new (to me) commands. The already mentioned sorting hat. So far I do have one disagreement – `numfmt` is A tier. You should play with it a bit more, super useful for better human readable numbers than `ls -h`, and only slightly less useful now that `sort` has a human readable option (at least on my Mac)
Edit: another disagreement. `cat` should be your first S+ tier utility
Technically the su command can become any user including super, but not exclusively. It's very useful as a sysadmin if you need to make changes in a user's files. Open your session and su them giving you their privileges and account controls. It can be quicker sometimes especially if someone has an issue that only seems to be effecting them.
I would put `who' command higher on the list. I wouldn't bother with all the hash function commands, instead I would spend time getting acquinted with openssl command, which although isn't part of coreutils, is a swiss army knife when it comes to hashing and cryptography and you will most likely get to use it at some point. For example instead of doing `sha256sum <file>' you can do `openssl sha256 <file>'.
At the beginning, he says he'll treat the rating as if you're a beginner Linux user. When he reaches a security-related command, he says if you're a beginner, it's D-tier, but for security professionals it's S-tier, so he puts it in S-tier.
Yep i really needed this shit
So fun
canonical core utils tier list just dropped
it seems to me that [ condition ] is used, not test condition
I often use stat in supervising/cleaning/archiving scripts
The GNU coreutils iceberg explained
Love it. Thank you. 🙏 🥰
I'm at the md5sum command and believe you should have printed the command name in the video. The tags are way too small. Anyway, looks like a good video to learn new commands.
I felt so stupid to notice the ridiculousness of your premise until 2 min mark. Hat off to you finishing off 30 min long video which seems like a total waste of time. One day I'd LOVE to make the same kind of video. I may put all the commands to the S tier with the exception of `chcon` which I can't believe it belongs to the coreutils.
Personally, `cat` and `dd` must be on SS tier for their versatility. `echo` is overrated as you can use `printf` instead. `install` is really important to know to avoid abusing `cp` and `chown`. And looking back to my career, `cut` and `mkfifo` are my favorites and secret weapons. They are the ones that differentiated myself from others.
bro, you're sleeping on logname(1). it returns the original/"real" username even if invoked in sudo/su. *Even multiple levels of sudo/su*.
As someone who uses nproc daily at least i don't understand how it could be just c tier. Unbelievably useful once you get the hang of it.
I disagree on whoami and groups being higher than id. id is the more flexible option, while those 2 are redundant and longer to write. Even id -u is still shorter than whoami.
For me in my professional career I had to used the “od” command very, very often. So for me it would be in “S” tier. The video was very interesting and informative on how different usage of these tools.
Who knew so many of your favorite commands weren't S-tier
Incredible.
4:20 Nice 👍
4:12 bro capping coz he can't see us SHREDDED!!!! 🏋️
For some reason, I am missing the "arch" command, I am on arch linux but neither bash cannot find it:
bash: arch: command not found
Any ideas why?
su is not only for becoming root, its can be used to become any user, provided you have the password, or is root when u run it…
The tier list is binary. If it's also in busybox then you should probably learn what it does.
S does not come before A. S comes after R and before T. Don't you know that?
None is good. They're all bad because they are not POSIX
27:34 For D-tier, I'm not sure who "the winner" is (of that tier) ???
…But for A, B, C, & S tiers, I'm pretty confident:
C-tier Winner: The stat command.
B-tier Winner: The bracketted test command: [
A-tier Winner: The printf command.
S-tier Winner: The dd command.
gnu is bloat. use busybox.
ML/data person here– cut and paste have very well-defined semantics that are helpful for working on dirty/malformed data without damaging it further
IIRC hostid has seomthing todo with NFS too!
the only tier list that is actually useful. I put it in the S-tier. 🙂
Take a shot every time he says command 💀
This is the best tier list I've ever seen.
Who in d tier is absurd, i could have forgiven c tier
Linux brainrot (/s). Nice video.
I like your voice.
The who command can be pretty useful. I use pam.d to automatically unlock my ZFS on my home NAS. When the user locks out I automatically decrypt the key by checking if the user is logged in once a minute
Glad to see all your favourite commands in long form. I still love the sort form too. 😊
I'm teaching Linux to my kids. This list is a great go to list to go by as i am choosing what to teach them first. Watching their young minds light up the first time they see a command work is marvelous.
I love everything about this! Nothing lower than “D” tier. Learning new (to me) commands. The already mentioned sorting hat. So far I do have one disagreement – `numfmt` is A tier. You should play with it a bit more, super useful for better human readable numbers than `ls -h`, and only slightly less useful now that `sort` has a human readable option (at least on my Mac)
Edit: another disagreement. `cat` should be your first S+ tier utility
Technically the su command can become any user including super, but not exclusively. It's very useful as a sysadmin if you need to make changes in a user's files. Open your session and su them giving you their privileges and account controls. It can be quicker sometimes especially if someone has an issue that only seems to be effecting them.
No grep??
No sed or awk either?
This is the rare type of video that makes me hit the like button.