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    [–] applemao@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (14 children)

    Do you guys also keep a notepad file on your desktop with all the usual commands and shortcuts on it? I can't imagine remembering them all otherwise... and I kind of cringe at the non stop DDG ing I have to do to do some basic liux stuff.

    [–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

    I press up key in terminal to find my commands, as for shortcuts I only use a few so I already remembered all of them

    [–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Just go up arrow til you dont need to anymore lol, i sometimes keep a sticky note, wish gnome had a sticky note in the topbar extension

    [–] applemao@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

    Doesn't gnome have that sticky app?

    [–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2 points 6 days ago

    I've got things that need to run periodically set up in crontab, and create menu launchers for things that I run as needed.

    [–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 2 points 6 days ago

    I use the up key for that

    [–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Yes.

    Source: Am Systems Admin (engineer/architect/your mom)

    [–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

    This guy's lucky to have such a good mum.

    Remember to share your notepad with them, even if they're all like, "mom, your bash usage is like from the '90s, so cringe!" Behind all the fuss, they're still learning from you.

    [–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Try a different shell, like fish or zsh, maybe. Something with really intense command auto-completion and history.

    I personally use fish, it is amazing for this kind of thing.

    ETA: also read up on rc files for whatever shell you are using. Creating aliases and functions based on what you do all the time is essential IMO.

    [–] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

    I use obsidian to make notes of how to install and setup applications from a fresh install, for example to install mariadb-libs when I install digikam so that I can use the mariadb database on my nas, and the way to mount my nas shares in fstab

    [–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

    I'm using my companies' mediawiki personal user page to keep snippets and one liners that took me some time to cobble together. I export that regularly to a personal device, so, yes. I've found that I never look at it because once I've hammered something together I usually got the concept so next time it takes me a fraction of the time.

    [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    I use KDE, and I put a sticky note widget on my top bar, so when you click it, it drops down (and then disappears when you click off of it). Whatever is on it is saved between sessions.

    Works great for this kind of thing.

    Edit: I also put a webbrowser widget up there that points to this handy site: https://linuxcommandlibrary.com/

    Same deal, click the icon and the site drops down.

    [–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I ctrl-r my history and set the histsize to some ludicrous value

    [–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

    History is documentation enough.

    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

    No. Stuff I use more than once I just put in a shell file. I don't really run much on the terminal besides those files and using it to update my system.

    [–] pelya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

    Sometimes I'm searching for a recipe to some obscure Linux tool and finding my own answers on Stackoverflow from ten years ago.

    [–] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    No never even crossed my mind but ig I was also in a competition for Linux that required me to memorize basically every single command and option

    [–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

    Which is bullshit tbh, which in turn is why I don't like LPIC. Even RedHat exams give you VMs with full manpages. Know concepts and know what to expect from which tool, everything else is wasted resources.