On a side note:
I hate it that the password-change command is minimally abbreviated to “passwd”.
Come on, making it much more complicated to remember and saving just two freakin letters??“umount” is worse
But the only command that I have to look up every damn time, although it has no abbreviation at all, is useradd.
Oh no, wait, I mean adduser!
… No, wait again… aah…Next update changes it to usadder as a compromise. Supposedly, it’s short for “user adder” but we all know it’s to make “[you] sadder”.
All the worse that Debian has both useradd and adduser. I never remember which is the one I want. And in Redhat-derivatives it’s something even more confusing.
The only thing I ever want to do is add a user to a group, is that too much to ask?
adduseris an interactive wrapper foruseradd. It can, for example, prompt the user to set a password rather than executepasswdseparately. Very useful if you just want to manage a user without reading throughuseradd’s command line options, then runningusermodbecause you forgot to set something.It doesn’t excuse the bad naming, I’d rather have something like
useradd --interactive, but it’s worth remembering.You’d want
usermodfor that, no? If the user already exists and you’re just modifying their groups?
Ah, damn it! I’ll look it up next time. *sudo vim /etc/passwd*
Surely
visudo, I hope
First time I have to use it, the spelling really confused me. Wrote unmount and didn’t understand why it didn’t work.
I guess this also must be an additional layer of hellfire for dyslexics…
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Now this looks like an interesting read. Thanks!
Kinda, but it’s pretty much all horrendously outdated bitching about superficial flaws in tools from 40 years ago.
I SAID, pass the wood
🤷 that’s why we have ls, rm, mv and hell, even w.
To confuse things even more there’s a utility called pwgen and I can never remember which two letters to type before hitting autocomplete.
mv = move, thus:
- rm = rome
- ls = lose
- cd = code
- w = woe
That is so cool.
So
- tr = tore
- tty = totey
- rsync = rosynce
- ps = pose
- pr = pore
- mpd = moped
I could do this all day.
making it much more complicated to remember
Do you not tab-complete your commands? I mean, my terminal usage for anything beyond very short commands consists of <first few letters of command> <TAB>.
Do you not tab-complete your commands?
Sure I do (although nowadays Strg-r does most of the heavy lifting for me), but as a decent touch-typist I am often faster directly typing short commands, like passwor… damn, I mean: passwd ;-)
Strg-r does most of the heavy lifting for me
If you haven’t, give fzf a try. Is like Ctrl+r in asteroids
My kryptonite is
duwhich reports disk usage, anddfwhich reports disk file size, or no, wait,duis file size anddfis disk usage.Most of the time I can only remember whichever one I don’t need at the moment and futilely hope that its man page will mention the other (which it doesn’t).
I just try them both every time
Just make an alias with a more convenient name.
alias ‘where_the_fuck_am_i’=“pwd”
alias who_the_fuck_am_i='whoami'alias what_the_hell_is_going_on='btop'alias who_the_fuck_is_that=finger
Unfortunately all the 2, 3 and 4 letter combinations are used as an alias for when i mistype “ls”
I always called it Present Working Directory but apparently it’s Print
Same, mind blown
I usually abbreviate these “in German” in my head. Esp. handy if there’s a freaking double-U in it, which is just one syllable in German. Exception: /etc = Etsy
I’m still not over the fact that /etc isn’t for et cetera
EDIT: turns out that it is, and that there’s a lot of dumbasses on the internet “teaching”
You might be right.
I am German and never had a problem with pwd… The “double-you” certainly breaks some easy phonetic connections you would otherwise just make…
I pronounce it pwood.
Pwud here
pizza with dick is how i reamber it
I use muscle memory.
My mnemonic is a bit weird, purrent working directory. I know the term cwd (current working directory) but I never bothered to learn what the p stands for, so I named it myself as purrent.
Sir this is Wendy’s
I use it both for password and
pwdinterchangeably
