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    [–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 months ago (2 children)

    Relevant xkcd

    [–] iamak@infosec.pub 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    tar --help is a valid command :p

    [–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

    So is tar by itself, really.

    [–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

    Is this comic about how very reasonable GUIs are?

    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 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 7 months ago

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