I’m a Windows user of all life. But I love Linux. And these last two years after so many time I started learning it in deep . But one thing is bugging me is that I am those persons that has bad times remembering names, words… imagine commands… Even after using it so much I remember some basics but I’m struggling a lot and I have to go back to notes constantly to do some basic operations. Even worst after trying multiple distro from from different upstreams that commands are … Different. What would be your recommendations to help me. Are there tools to help this issue ? My guess is that A LOT of people happens the same. And it’s one of the reasons Linux has such a slow adption . Because is excellent and full of capabilities.
It automatically suggests commands, you’ve run before, if you start typing the first letters, like so:
You can also press the Up-Arrow at any point to show other commands from your history which contain the text that you just typed.
So, it is similar to Ctrl+R in Bash, but easier to use and you don’t have to actively think about it.
And, if you can’t remember the options for commands, fish will offer you suggestions. So, if you type
ls -and press tab, fish will give you a list of all of the valid switches and a brief description.