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Read the Following Manual (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 66 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Bro’s not saying you have to memorize the manual, just like … read it. Even a bit of familiarity goes a long way.

If you have literally no memory then command line is 100% unusable but otherwise every little bit helps.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    No memory is me being hyperbolic but it's severely limited. So I feel like reading a manual line by line means I get much less out of it but it's a large amount of time invested. So I have to factor in that my retention vs time on task is pretty skewed. It's frustrating. I need to do something a few times to learn. Learning by reading is not great for me. But tech is a very document heavy industry

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    So: read the man page, find the switches and options you need and hand write that bitch on a notepad, close the man page and execute the command. It’s tedious but it will help your not-great memory work a lot better.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Or easier, just fire up multiple tty's. The poor person's tabs.

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