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> If I don't remember the `df` command... what do I do apart from searching on the internet? You can do that locally on the command line too! https://en.wikip

by koolba 6y ago

> If I don't remember the `df` command... what do I do apart from searching on the internet? You can do that locally on the command line too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apropos_(Unix) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apropos_(Unix)

homarp 6y ago
or man -k "disk space"
- aidenn0 6y ago
  disk space: nothing appropriate.
  - Annatar 6y ago
    As root run catman -w just once to (re)build the index. Results are guaranteed to be of high quality only on a real UNIX, preferrably one of open source Solaris (illumos) distributions, and likely FreeBSD.
  - homarp 6y ago
    on Ubuntu 18.04 this is what I got $ apropos "disk space" df (1) - report file system disk space usage $ man -k "disk space" df (1) - report file system disk space usage and $ man -k "disk usage" docker-system-df (1) - Show docker disk usage
- stjohnswarts 6y ago
  hmmm this one I didn't know :D
lanna 6y ago
But what if one doesn't remember the `apropos` command?
- koolba 6y ago
  Then you fire him and hire someone else.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- Annatar 6y ago
  Then that person is the wrong person for the job.
- weinzierl 6y ago
  apropos apropos if you forget that apropos apropos apropos Recursion solves every problem;-) More seriously: You can alias it to something you can remember, for example: alias help=apropos
  - dredmorbius 6y ago
    'help' is already the shell's built-in help function in most cases. That'd be a poor choice of alias. There are a small number of seed keywords which are ueeful to know. 'help' (shell), 'apropos', 'man' (online manual), 'info' (GNU documentation), and dwww (local documentation presented through a Web interface, available on Debian-based Linux, see https://ostechnix.com/dwww-view-complete-debian-documentation-offline-via-web-browser/ https://ostechnix.com/dwww-view-complete-debian-documentatio...) are among them. Knowledge requires a certain baseline. If that's too much ... perhaps a GUI is in fact advisable.
- diffeomorphism 6y ago
  The same thing if someone does not remember there is a right mouse button?
  - lanna 6y ago
    It's right there, in front of them, all the time

by koolba 6y ago

homarp 6y ago

or man -k "disk space"

aidenn0 6y ago
disk space: nothing appropriate.
- Annatar 6y ago
  As root run catman -w just once to (re)build the index. Results are guaranteed to be of high quality only on a real UNIX, preferrably one of open source Solaris (illumos) distributions, and likely FreeBSD.
- homarp 6y ago
  on Ubuntu 18.04 this is what I got $ apropos "disk space" df (1) - report file system disk space usage $ man -k "disk space" df (1) - report file system disk space usage and $ man -k "disk usage" docker-system-df (1) - Show docker disk usage
stjohnswarts 6y ago
hmmm this one I didn't know :D

lanna 6y ago

But what if one doesn't remember the `apropos` command?

koolba 6y ago
Then you fire him and hire someone else.
deleted 6y ago
[deleted]
Annatar 6y ago
Then that person is the wrong person for the job.
weinzierl 6y ago
apropos apropos if you forget that apropos apropos apropos Recursion solves every problem;-) More seriously: You can alias it to something you can remember, for example: alias help=apropos
- dredmorbius 6y ago
  'help' is already the shell's built-in help function in most cases. That'd be a poor choice of alias. There are a small number of seed keywords which are ueeful to know. 'help' (shell), 'apropos', 'man' (online manual), 'info' (GNU documentation), and dwww (local documentation presented through a Web interface, available on Debian-based Linux, see https://ostechnix.com/dwww-view-complete-debian-documentation-offline-via-web-browser/ https://ostechnix.com/dwww-view-complete-debian-documentatio...) are among them. Knowledge requires a certain baseline. If that's too much ... perhaps a GUI is in fact advisable.
diffeomorphism 6y ago
The same thing if someone does not remember there is a right mouse button?
- lanna 6y ago
  It's right there, in front of them, all the time