Hint: :q!
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Clarification: Just making fun of people(including myself) who watch shitty videos instead of official documentation.
Copypastes every terminal command string from every forum post they see, hoping one of them fixes the problem
bash: common-sense: command not found
maybe installing fortune will help
These are the same people who later on complain about Linux being shit because it just breaks
I really like the man pages for commands that have examples of some common usage at the bottom, that gets you kickstarted and you can just adapt your own command from the example.
Free tech tip: https://cht.sh/ serves practical, usage-focused help on common command-line tasks. You can visit the website, or even better, curl for what you want.
$ curl cht.sh/touch
gets you this:
cheat:touch
# To change a file's modification time:
touch -d <time> <file>
touch -d 12am <file>
touch -d "yesterday 6am" <file>
touch -d "2 days ago 10:00" <file>
touch -d "tomorrow 04:00" <file>
# To put the timestamp of a file on another:
touch -r <refrence-file> <target-file>
Append with ~ and a word to show only help containing that word:
$ curl cht.sh/zstd~compress
Result:
tldr:zstd
# zstd
# Compress or decompress files with Zstandard compression.
# More information: <https://github.com/facebook/zstd>.
# Decompress a file:
zstd -d path/to/file.zst
# Decompress to `stdout`:
zstd -dc path/to/file.zst
# Compress a file specifying the compression level, where 1=fastest, 19=slowest and 3=default:
zstd -level path/to/file
# Unlock higher compression levels (up to 22) using more memory (both for compression and decompression):
zstd --ultra -level path/to/file
For more usage tips, curl cht.sh/:help.
This definitely needs an alias overriding man lol
You just blew my MF mind.
I've gotten in the dumbfounding habit of searching man <program> on the web instead of in the terminal I'm already typing in.
Sometimes I try to quit my browser with :q or try to send emails with :wq
That's a browser extension worth building
Dude. Warn me before saying something like that. I'm too high for this... Lol
Same outcome even if you read man pages
A lot of man pages suck ass.
Except openBSD ones, they should be the standard of quality for user documentation.
Consider this, nearly every major distro (and some minor distros like Alpine) has a wiki (or is based on a Distro that does).
Thihi and sooner or later they all end up at the arch linux wikis.
We use arch btw.
I also use Arch btw :3
Nice friend
Fren :3
True but if you're distro offers a good enough user experience then you won't be spending nearly as much time in docs, as opposed to just enjoying your desktop.
Being for more "technical people" is just a lame excuse for bad UX.
If you want to really learn what you're doing, try info coreutils
what the fuck is a man page
whatis man
something related to mansplaining... /s
its a giant wall of text i have never used that can be opened with the terminal command man <othercommand> where is literally any other command
Don't forget the HEAVY Indian accent