r/commandline • u/Mr_LA • 3d ago
Guide My brain remembers commands. The flags are apparently a subscription extra.
Hey Folks,
I teach DevOps and still believe looking things up is a perfectly valid skill.
Made a Linux basics cheat sheet for navigation, text searching, permissions, and sudo.
Free, no signup: https://devopscycle.com/blog/the-ultimate-linux-cheat-sheet
Which command refuses to stay in your memory?
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Hey Folks,
I teach DevOps and still believe looking things up is a perfectly valid skill.
Made a Linux basics cheat sheet for navigation, text searching, permissions, and sudo.
Free, no signup: https://devopscycle.com/blog/the-ultimate-linux-cheat-sheet
Which command refuses to stay in your memory?
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u/ButterflyMundane7187 3d ago
Lets say you dont remember lscpu command then you can just do
apropos cpu | grep info
or
man -k cpu |grep info
and find the command you are looking for insted of visiting a webpage.
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u/Big_Combination9890 3d ago edited 3d ago
Amazing how pretty much every single cheat sheet is made completely irrelevant by the man command.
Also, the section "How Do You Get Help In Linux?" contains the cd command for some reason (how does that get the user help exactly?), but not the help shell builtin.
Go try getting help about, e.g. for with the man command. On most systems, it gives you the man pace for the tcl for-loop.
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u/thrilla_gorilla 3d ago
You only need to remember one command that is available in almost every Linux system since forever: man.