I dont enjoy web searching every time. Id like to just have some sort of document I can read or search to find certain commands.

I do have the man pages on kiwix but is a little complex to navigate. Like if I want to learn how grep works, what’s the best way. Or if I forgot lshw, how do you go about looking up a command that does a certain thing like list out hardware etc.

Showing examples would be super helpful too, like “here’s a typical dd command for a drive image clone”

Preferably a desktop/android app or something that helps with this would be nice.

  • SethranKada@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    I use tldr myself, but it’s just an easier to read version of man pages, so it doesn’t directly help with what your asking for. Sorry

  • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    41·
    11 months ago

    I collect things and put them in my personal notes for reference later.

    Naturally, I end up googling it anyway.

  • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    eg although I usually forget to use it and just go with manpages.

    I have several decades of using manpages, so you can understand the manpage reflex. If you don’t have that manpage muscle memory, I’d say give eg a shot.

  • masterofn001@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    Does nobody use info?

    So much more in depth than any manpage.

    Granted it doesn’t contain every app installed, but it gives very detailed and very verbose explanations, examplea, options, use cases, caveats, warnings, etc, for all of the most essential commands and functions

    $ info

    In the program these are basic commands :

    -I # sets searching to always case insensitive -very necessary (upper case I)

    / # search for pattern

    n # search forward
N # search back

    You can also search from command line using

    Info -k [pattern]