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Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by Splines on Monday May 21, 2018 @10:27PM (#17123344)
> In Windows, when you type "help", it actually gives you helpful commands: COPY, MOVE, DEL, REN/RENAME, etc. and at least the basic commands are actually what you'd expect. At least you have a foothold somewhere that you can ground yourself, and you start learning a bit more every time.

Yes, this. I recall back in the MS-DOS days that I frequently used a text-GUI help menu that showed all the commands you could do and what each one did.

Personally, this is what I struggle with on *nix shells - I can do the very basics but there's little guidance showing you a broad overview of what is possible. Granted, the world is bigger now but if you asked me how to do a random task I'd probably google it first instead of reading a man page.

Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by cerberusss on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @03:32AM (#17124279)
> Personally, this is what I struggle with on *nix shells

Once you learn the 8000 or so commands, it becomes incredibly intuitive.

Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by krageon on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @04:43AM (#17124515)
Don't forget all the little tricks in chaining them! And all the magic you can do with pipes.
Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by mehrdadn on Monday May 21, 2018 @10:32PM (#17123360)
> Personally, this is what I struggle with on *nix shells

It's not just the shells! ;)