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I think the lowest hanging fruit would be doing something (anything) to improve discovery of commands. I have great grokking abilities but terrible memorization

I think the lowest hanging fruit would be doing something (anything) to improve discovery of commands. I have great grokking abilities but terrible memorization skills, and I end up forgetting how to do what I want to do and maybe even have done before. Browsing man pages for every command is my bane. It's also why I dislike GUI with unlabelled icons, I never remember what each one does.

syndicatedjelly 2y ago
Haven’t used it much but “apropos” is probably what you want. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/apropos.1.html https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/apropos.1.html
shadowgovt 2y ago
At this point Google has basically taken over that function... "How do I _ on the command line?" more often than not gives one some starting point to develop from.
jryb 2y ago
Maybe try fish? Tab completion will suggest subcommands, and if you type - or -- and hit tab, it will suggest the available options with help text generated from man pages (example: https://flaviocopes.com/images/fish-shell/autocomplete.png https://flaviocopes.com/images/fish-shell/autocomplete.png). Doesn't really help with positional arguments but it's definitely enhanced the discoverability of many tools for me.
- phreack 2y ago
  This is by far the best practical option! Life could be even better, but out of all options this one's great.
bongodongobob 2y ago
GPT is great at this. I wrote a little program that I can call from a shell. Bashai.py show me a bash one liner that does x. It then shows me the command and asks if I want to run it with or without root. Simple, yet one of the best tools I've ever made for myself.
vmladenov 2y ago
fzf replacing my default ^R has been a godsend to me for remembering how to do things in the shell. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
skydhash 2y ago
A note file with the commands written would be your best bet. Then bring the most common ones in your shell as aliases or functions.

syndicatedjelly 2y ago

Haven’t used it much but “apropos” is probably what you want. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/apropos.1.html https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/apropos.1.html

shadowgovt 2y ago

At this point Google has basically taken over that function... "How do I _ on the command line?" more often than not gives one some starting point to develop from.

jryb 2y ago

Maybe try fish? Tab completion will suggest subcommands, and if you type - or -- and hit tab, it will suggest the available options with help text generated from man pages (example: https://flaviocopes.com/images/fish-shell/autocomplete.png https://flaviocopes.com/images/fish-shell/autocomplete.png). Doesn't really help with positional arguments but it's definitely enhanced the discoverability of many tools for me.

phreack 2y ago
This is by far the best practical option! Life could be even better, but out of all options this one's great.

bongodongobob 2y ago

GPT is great at this. I wrote a little program that I can call from a shell. Bashai.py show me a bash one liner that does x. It then shows me the command and asks if I want to run it with or without root. Simple, yet one of the best tools I've ever made for myself.

vmladenov 2y ago

fzf replacing my default ^R has been a godsend to me for remembering how to do things in the shell. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

skydhash 2y ago

A note file with the commands written would be your best bet. Then bring the most common ones in your shell as aliases or functions.