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.
How do I remember what the command even is? Like how would I discover the grep tool without using the Internet?
Discovering tools is not what the question and solution presented here was. But for that question, I recommend downloading a book about Linux as a reference or something like that. Or a basic tutorial series to read and remember basics about Linux.
You can also just list the
ls /usr/bindirectory to see what programs are there.There is actually a command to search the man pages for terms, to list the commands:
apropos$ apropos -s 1 search apropos (1) - search the manual page names and descriptions find (1) - search for files in a directory hierarchy flatpak-search (1) - Search for applications and runtimes gamemodelist (1) - search for processes running with gamemode rg (1) - recursively search the current directory for lines matching a pattern zipgrep (1) - search files in a ZIP archive for lines matching a patternNote: I cut some parts out in the output to make it shorter. The option
-s 1means, it will list man pages from section 1 only.