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Bash completion is still pretty fast for most commands. If you need --help or man, it will slow you down considerably

chc 10y ago
In my experience, the slowdown is usually not remembering the command, but remembering, say, whether you want -f, -F, --force, --hard or some other option for this particular command. Even common commands have this problem — for example, I don't copy files all that much, so when I do, I frequently forget that cp takes -R instead of -r.
- lccarrasco 10y ago
  doesn't cp take -r,-R or --recursive? or is it OS specific? in Ubuntu or CentOS I believe they're all the same
  - greenshackle2 10y ago
    It's program specific. The vast majority of linux distros come with GNU cp, which takes either. BSD's version of cp only takes -R, Mac's too I suppose since it's BSD-based. The annoying ones on linux are chmod/chown, they take -R only. EDIT: it's OS specific in the sense that these programs follow the OS's convention, I expect BusyBox cp, a lightweight Linux version of cp, has the same options as GNU cp
    - phillipwills 10y ago
      chmod is that way because ambiguity... -r is take away read...
  - chc 10y ago
    POSIX only specifies -R. Actual implementations of cp can include whatever nonstandard arguments they want, such as -r in GNU cp.
    - lccarrasco 10y ago
      thanks a lot, gotta read more about POSIX ^^
megous 10y ago
Slowdown will turn fairly quickly into a major speedup if you're trying to do operations on multiple files.
- kazagistar 10y ago
  Most of the speedup of automating repetative flows can be recovered using a program like AutoHotKey.
saghm 10y ago
You can also configure zsh to show you all the autocomplete options (files/directories, flags, command-specific arguments like git tags, etc.) and tab/arrow key through them visually: http://i47.tinypic.com/2qtwxnn.gif http://i47.tinypic.com/2qtwxnn.gif (The gif is a little slow, but you can obviously move through them a fast as you can hit the keys)

chc 10y ago

In my experience, the slowdown is usually not remembering the command, but remembering, say, whether you want -f, -F, --force, --hard or some other option for this particular command. Even common commands have this problem — for example, I don't copy files all that much, so when I do, I frequently forget that cp takes -R instead of -r.

lccarrasco 10y ago
doesn't cp take -r,-R or --recursive? or is it OS specific? in Ubuntu or CentOS I believe they're all the same
- greenshackle2 10y ago
  It's program specific. The vast majority of linux distros come with GNU cp, which takes either. BSD's version of cp only takes -R, Mac's too I suppose since it's BSD-based. The annoying ones on linux are chmod/chown, they take -R only. EDIT: it's OS specific in the sense that these programs follow the OS's convention, I expect BusyBox cp, a lightweight Linux version of cp, has the same options as GNU cp
  - phillipwills 10y ago
    chmod is that way because ambiguity... -r is take away read...
- chc 10y ago
  POSIX only specifies -R. Actual implementations of cp can include whatever nonstandard arguments they want, such as -r in GNU cp.
  - lccarrasco 10y ago
    thanks a lot, gotta read more about POSIX ^^

megous 10y ago

Slowdown will turn fairly quickly into a major speedup if you're trying to do operations on multiple files.

kazagistar 10y ago
Most of the speedup of automating repetative flows can be recovered using a program like AutoHotKey.

saghm 10y ago

You can also configure zsh to show you all the autocomplete options (files/directories, flags, command-specific arguments like git tags, etc.) and tab/arrow key through them visually: http://i47.tinypic.com/2qtwxnn.gif http://i47.tinypic.com/2qtwxnn.gif (The gif is a little slow, but you can obviously move through them a fast as you can hit the keys)