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We’re still relatively new to Linux even after a year of switching. Started learning more about the terminal just to get comfortable with it and it’s not hard at all, just got to remember ask the commands haha (did make a cheat sheet lol)
(Unrelated: Yoooo plural gang!!!! :D) -PJ & Sam
(*wags tail at both PJ and Sam!!* =^.^=)
yeah! Terminal's super useful but also kind of daunting.
If y'all haven't seen the man pages, they make an excellent reference. Honestly, they're basically written more as reference than as tutorial type stuff most of the time. So that's there whenever your cheatsheet doesn't cover something.
Also we use zsh (without plugins, you don't need plugins) and it's got really fancy autocomplete. We can just type
-and hit tab and get a list of all the options for that command (that zsh knows about; I don't think it goes and reads man pages for you or anything like that). I can't remember how you turn that on but I think it's something you can do from zsh's initial setup wizard. I don't know if bash can do the same thing or not, I think probably not (but we're not super up to date on bash).(I'd avoid fish, which you might also run into if you go looking for fancy features. It's known for really fancy features but it's also not compatible with normal shell scripts, which'll screw you up if you ever want to get into scripting. zsh does normal shell script syntax (with the exception of protecting you if you forget to quote your variables) and also has really nice fancy features like the autocomplete.)
-- Frost
Got ya, will look into the zhs!! Sounds super useful. And yush found out about the man from a tutorial for useful commands in terminal. 90% of the time we’re converting files with ffmpeg and running yt-dlp lol -PJ