Random Dent@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•What helps people get comfortable on the command line?English
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2 days agoYeah that was it for me. Just keep regular backups and bear in mind that you’ll probably break stuff at first. But once you get the hang of it, it’s like a whole other level of control over your system.
Also I’m not dyslexic but would things like tab completion and aliases help maybe? I sometimes shorten often-used commands with aliases just for convenience (as an example, I use rsync
a lot, particularly the command rsync --ignore-existing -rav
which I just shorten to rs
to save time) so maybe that could also be used to avoid mis-spelling?
I have some mapped to super simple aliases too like
e1
to reboot,e2
to shutdown etc. I don’t remember why I started doing that, but that way I only have to remember which number does what lol.