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Thanks to the tldr devs (lemmy.world)
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[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I cant believe i only learned about tldr two weeks ago....

It's been a total gamechanger for me. I have such shitty memory for options flags. I'm pretty comfortable with the terminal and i've been full time linux for 15 years now

But i STILL cant remember common options for basic stuff like tar and curl....

curl output to file.... -O or -o??? Have to look it up every time

[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Relevant xkcd

[–] iamak@infosec.pub 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

tar --help is a valid command :p

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

So is tar by itself, really.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Is this comic about how very reasonable GUIs are?

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago

Sometimes v is verbose and sometimes it's version MAKE UP YOUR MIND
and then V is version to differentiate it from v for verbose but then sometimes V is equivalent to five vs for some reason,

[–] quantenzitrone@feddit.de 4 points 5 months ago

fish shell is also a huge help for that tab autosuggestions also have short explainations