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We spend a large proportion of our lives debugging issues. Sometimes we just need an answer to a very simple question but getting that answer is a real struggle and can be time-consuming. On occassions I’ve seen a complicated 3rd party piece of technology thrown at the problem but often in these sorts of scenarios, linux already has you covered. Many of these command-line utilties either already come with a standard linux distribution or are one line away from an install from your specific distro’s preferred package manager. Here’s a list of command-line tools I think all developers should know how to use to answer simple questions.