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On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:53:08 -0000 (UTC)
Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 12:57:09 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:
> > The commands were designed to be very powerful; the greater the power
> > the greater the 'responsibility'. Sometimes when one sees a man result
> > he feels like he is drowning.
> >
> The other thing that needs to be taught is that each command is designed
> to do one thing and to do it well, which is why there are so *many*
> commands. hence the need to understand 'apropos', or better,
>
> apropos 'action name' | less
>
> as an aid to finding the command they want and than
>
> man commandname
>
> to see how to use it.
>
> > Of course, being thrown into the water and needing to swim back out is
> > one way to learn to swim :-)
> >
> .. and sadly there isn't a lot else. If the student is capable of using
> command lines on another system, then something like 'Linux in a
> Nutshell' may be helpful, but that's about the only decent book I know
> unless there's a 'Linux for Dummies' available and they're not put off by
> the title.

If I go on amazon and search for "Linux command line" I see many books and
they tend to have high rating average. Either you don't consider them decent
or you haven't performed any such search in a long time even just for
curiosity.

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