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I love the enthusiasm of newbies! Welcome to the journey!
You may want to check out the fish shell. The auto-complete is the only way I want to use the terminal nowadays.
Is it better than zsh or bash with their corresponding completion packages installed?
looks pretty cool, I might try it out :D
One of the things that first made me fall in love with the cli was how fast doing things like this was. GUIs are hard, and can crash or use up resources for all sorts of different reasons wholly unrelated to the primary task you are trying to accomplish. Once I got over the learning curve of using the cli (and to be fair I’m still in the process of getting truly comfortable with it) I was able to do things so much faster and with less frustration.
Of course, I also don’t want to neglect that it’s not just a matter of the command line but just how good Linux is in this regard. Windows has a command line too and I hate using that thing.
Using the terminal to install programs is much faster than both the Microsoft and GNOME store!
fuzzy finding.
Something else you can do. Install oh-my-bash or oh-my-zsh, either, with zoxide jump around. Any of the directories you visit are tracked and weighted with a frecency weighted value. Then all you need to do is type in parts of the name to go there.
For instance, if I had directories ~/code/dev_repo/project-one ~/code/dev_repo/project-two ~/code/dev_repo/project-three
Then you just type z dev one or z co re pro two You know, the parts of the directories you remember. The more you visit various directories and the more recent, the weighting is higher and the more likely you get the correct directory you want with even less and less characters. Also check out atuin it adds a fuzzy finding to your bash history or zsh history.
Thanks! I already use zsh's partial name matching, but that looks even more useful
Yeah, it's killer. Just replace cd with z, for everything. Also, popd to drop down the stack.
What's the dude's name? /s
If you think that’s awesome, you’ll orgasm when you learn about pipes and I/O redirection
Also available,
dnf search [package name]
flatpak search [package name]
And just wait until you learn about pwd, cd, ls, man, the list goes on!
And then aliasing, I have a combo of cd and ls I aliased to cdls, it's glorious, and I'm still a beginner too!
Dude go to youtube and search "bash basics" and "linux cli basics" and watch a couple of them, and follow along in your terminal like you're taking a class. Be careful with sudo or su but otherwise you should be fine! Welcome to the beginning of a new and wonderful journey!
:0 You can SEARCH?
Yup! And of course uninstall things, too!
Beginner's Guide to Bash in Terminal
And this is one of the videos that really helped me get comfortable with the CLI, there's others too, but this was the first one I recognized from the thumbnail.
Tbh I may watch a few myself, see if there's any tips I've forgotten or hadn't seen in the past from new vids.
If you're more of a reader than a watcher, there are also many searchable individual pages to help with this. Personally, I've learned a lot from TLDP.