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How to help a person who has bad times remembering commands when using Linux. (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm a Windows user of all life. But I love Linux. And these last two years after so many time I started learning it in deep . But one thing is bugging me is that I am those persons that has bad times remembering names, words... imagine commands... Even after using it so much I remember some basics but I'm struggling a lot and I have to go back to notes constantly to do some basic operations. Even worst after trying multiple distro from from different upstreams that commands are ... Different. What would be your recommendations to help me. Are there tools to help this issue ? My guess is that A LOT of people happens the same. And it's one of the reasons Linux has such a slow adption . Because is excellent and full of capabilities.

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[–] Deckweiss 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Here is my personal approach to this.

I have set my bash history to a ridiculous 1000000 max length, so that I can use CTRL+R to search for commands that I have ran before
I write down a lot of commands in a searchable note text document
Ask chatGPT
Use the tldr command
Added A LOT of verbose custom aliases and scripts. For example instead of

inotifywait -m -r --exclude "(/tmp.*|/var/cache.*|/dev/pts/|/var/log.*)" -e MOVED_TO -e CREATE -e CLOSE_WRITE -e DELETE -e MODIFY . (nobody can remember that alphabet gibberish)

I just type watch_for_changes .

Since it is verbose, straight from my brain, I always remember it and it works with autocomplete. I have like ~30 such commands so far.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Rather than a text file, using a command snippet manager like pet might be more convenient.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

That's an interesting little program. Not sure if it's for me - I'll either remember/lookup commands or create bash scripts for more complicated things - but it's good to know about.

[–] Deckweiss 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Great concept, but I don't live in the terminal and prefer GUI text editor features (like jumping the cursor with a mouseclick).

The workflow on the git page looks extremely clunky compared to a good old textfile.