Re: how to practice.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 06:54:17PM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote:
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> On 18/05/12 13:18, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
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> > Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and
> > half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said
> > to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you
> > will never look back to Windows GUI. I literally can experience this thing
> > at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in
> > Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will
> > forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I
> > will forget with less or 0 practice). so i am here to ask all the old Pros
> > that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the
> > previous work. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is
> > only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible
> > to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward
> > with the new goals.
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> As people have pointed out, the command line is the way to go. It can be
> intimidating (i.e.`rm` unless you apply safeguards, does *mean* `rm`
> especially if you put a `-Rf` after it) but that's part of its beauty:
> simplicity & absolute power when run as root (or sudo).
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> I use man pages a lot. I also use vim for everything. Reading man pages
> with less can be a tedious affair so I put:
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> `manvim() { vim -c "Man$1" -c 'silent! only';}` &:
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> `export TERM=xterm-256-color`
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> in my ~/.bashrc
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> &:
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> `source $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/man.vim`
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> in my ~/.vimrc & then calling the man page like so `$ manvim foo`
>
> & they're much easier to read. For everything else, I have hard copies
> of "Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth &
> others & "Classic Shell Scripting: Hidden Commands that Unlock the Power
> of Unix" by Arnold Robbins & "Sed & Awk" by Dale Dougherty. For
> everything else, there's the internet.
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> As was pointed out by an earlier poster, just keep reading. I read
> hundreds of pages of documentation a day on every different circumstance
> I'm likely to encounter. That in itself is a full-time job :-).
>
+1 on vim, also vifm for file management.
You have to build vifm from source though,the ancient version in
the repos is not nearly as useful as 0.7+.
Customize keybindings and file associations, and it really rocks.
:)
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