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How to help a person who has bad times remembering commands when using Linux. (lemm.ee)
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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.

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[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

I partly remember the first letter and press arrow up.

I use ZSH shell with oh-my-zsh. It autofills the rest with history at the point you write. So arrow keys make you scroll through the history which is beginning with the thing you wrote

[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

Same with fish.

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fish is even more advanced with this.

But I still prefer ZSH because of shell language being incompatible with fish. I dislike learning that thing, when I have everywhere new Linux shells with bash

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

This is my boat with fish shell at the moment, like I started learning how to make scripts with it, and I very quickly realized that it's definitely a minority shell, and that it's not worth it to make scripts for, it's missing functionality that normal bash has and has zero functionality with existing Scripts so I'm finding myself having to switch to bash anyway for most scripting.

I never really tried zsh, I might tinker with it if it does have that functionality as that's the part I really like about fish

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I also heard that the same functions are also possible in bash with plugins.

Maybe start with "oh-my-bash"?

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

I'd never replace bash with fish, but it's a great tool for when I don't know or cannot remember a command of argument.

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