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.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    3·
    6 days ago

    Then use the commands help or read the local man document. In example for grep it would be grep --help and man grep. You don’t need an online connection for this.

    • jimbolauski@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 days ago

      Containers become problematic, some don’t have man pages or other common commands installed. Debugging applications on them requires a wide knowledge of all sorts of primitive commands and workarounds to achieve common tasks. My biggest fear is a container without grep.

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
        3·
        5 days ago

        Discovering tools is not what the question and solution presented here was. But for that question, I recommend downloading a book about Linux as a reference or something like that. Or a basic tutorial series to read and remember basics about Linux.

        You can also just list the ls /usr/bin directory to see what programs are there.

        There is actually a command to search the man pages for terms, to list the commands: apropos

        $ apropos -s 1 search
apropos (1)          - search the manual page names and descriptions
find (1)             - search for files in a directory hierarchy
flatpak-search (1)   - Search for applications and runtimes
gamemodelist (1)     - search for processes running with gamemode
rg (1)               - recursively search the current directory for lines matching a pattern
zipgrep (1)          - search files in a ZIP archive for lines matching a pattern

        Note: I cut some parts out in the output to make it shorter. The option -s 1 means, it will list man pages from section 1 only.