You Don't Need a GUI

Re:You Don't Need a GUI by koolba on Thursday April 08, 2021 @07:39PM (#26745120)

> If I don't remember the `df` command... what do I do apart from searching on the internet?

You can do that locally on the command line too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apropos_(Unix)

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by lanna on Thursday April 08, 2021 @10:26PM (#26746085)

But what if one doesn't remember the `apropos` command?

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by weinzierl on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:10AM (#26747894)

    apropos apropos

if you forget that

    apropos apropos apropos

Recursion solves every problem;-)

More seriously: You can alias it to something you can remember, for example:

    alias help=apropos

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by dredmorbius on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:01AM (#26748255)

'help' is already the shell's built-in help function in most cases. That'd be a poor choice of alias.

There are a small number of seed keywords which are ueeful to know. 'help' (shell), 'apropos', 'man' (online manual), 'info' (GNU documentation), and dwww (local documentation presented through a Web interface, available on Debian-based Linux, see https://ostechnix.com/dwww-view-complete-debian-documentatio...) are among them.

Knowledge requires a certain baseline.

If that's too much ... perhaps a GUI is in fact advisable.

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by diffeomorphism on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:40AM (#26748112)

The same thing if someone does not remember there is a right mouse button?

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by lanna on Friday April 09, 2021 @08:55AM (#26749926)

It's right there, in front of them, all the time

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by koolba on Thursday April 08, 2021 @10:50PM (#26746192)

Then you fire him and hire someone else.

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by Annatar on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:48AM (#26747401)

Then that person is the wrong person for the job.

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by homarp on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:17PM (#26745377)

or man -k "disk space"

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by aidenn0 on Friday April 09, 2021 @01:21AM (#26746986)

  disk space: nothing appropriate.

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by Annatar on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:49AM (#26747410)

As root run

  catman -w

just once to (re)build the index. Results are guaranteed to be of high quality only on a real UNIX, preferrably one of open source Solaris (illumos) distributions, and likely FreeBSD.

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by homarp on Friday April 09, 2021 @03:59AM (#26747823)

on Ubuntu 18.04 this is what I got

$ apropos "disk space"

df (1) - report file system disk space usage

$ man -k "disk space"

df (1) - report file system disk space usage

and

$ man -k "disk usage"

docker-system-df (1) - Show docker disk usage

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by stjohnswarts on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:30AM (#26751775)

hmmm this one I didn't know :D

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