On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 06:54:17PM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 18/05/12 13:18, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > 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. > > > 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). > > 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: > > `manvim() { vim -c "Man$1" -c 'silent! only';}` &: > > `export TERM=xterm-256-color` > > in my ~/.bashrc > > &: > > `source $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/man.vim` > > in my ~/.vimrc & then calling the man page like so `$ 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. > > 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. :) -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120518180627.GA18007@radhesyama