Re:Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (2014)
by jagged-chisel on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:04PM
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I, too, experience Swiss-cheese-brain.
I once thought I’d solve this by taking notes, organizing a journal, and writing ... Well, it was a manual. That had the same problem as other manuals - too long, not gonna read.
Full circle.
Re:Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (2014)
by DawsonBruce on Saturday August 20, 2022 @05:44PM
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I like making flashcards for myself for new topics that I study, in addition to notes. Of course bash as a whole will not fit on a flashcard, but breaking it into high-level topics. looking through the cards I’ve made helps when I feel the need to brush up on a topic in a general sense before diving deeper.
Despite all this, my brain is still Swiss-cheese.
Your note taking, organizing and writing will have helped you retain a lot more info for a longer period of time. It wasn't wasted effort. Still, there is a such thing as "too much". Higher degrees of success are achieved by regularly evaluating where you are in the "too little" to "too much" spectrum.
Bold claim and patently untrue because I have read the whole manual.
However:
1) Things you don't use often leak out of your brain at a rate that is absurd.
2) Different versions have different features and there's wide variations between versions on different platforms, you can't actually depend on a lot of bash stuff existing, so instead it's usually better to target POSIX sh