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> Well, first, calm yourself, you fool. Once you've regained your composure, just type `oh-heck` into Terminal and follow the steps you numbskull.
I think that they're trying to be clever, but I prefer to not be insulted by my tools.
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I used to have a hard time remembering apropos because I assumed 'apropos' was some sort of unixy mincing of another word or abbreviation or something, and I couldn't figure out what it meant. You know, like 'mkdir' means "MaKe DIRectory" But it turns out apropos is just a regular word. Once I learned this, I haven't had any more trouble with it. apropos : Of an appropriate or pertinent nature. https://en.wiktionary.…
Ohh I always thought "apropos" was from the French expression "à propos (de)... " which means "about". I naïvely believed that the person who coded this command must be French.
[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apropos [1] https://www.mankier.com/1/apropos.mandoc#History
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Apropos has the compelling feature that I get to feel clever for knowing the word.
I believe man -k just runs apropos.
Does it handle questions that would result in piping commands together like “how do I get the third element in a JSON response from a curl command?”
This will be a great command alongside “fuck”
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I used to have a hard time remembering apropos because I assumed 'apropos' was some sort of unixy mincing of another word or abbreviation or something, and I couldn't figure out what it meant. You know, like 'mkdir' means "MaKe DIRectory" But it turns out apropos is just a regular word. Once I learned this, I haven't had any more trouble with it. apropos : Of an appropriate or pertinent nature. https://en.wiktionary.…
Ohh I always thought "apropos" was from the French expression "à propos (de)... " which means "about". I naïvely believed that the person who coded this command must be French.
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I used to have a hard time remembering apropos because I assumed 'apropos' was some sort of unixy mincing of another word or abbreviation or something, and I couldn't figure out what it meant. You know, like 'mkdir' means "MaKe DIRectory" But it turns out apropos is just a regular word. Once I learned this, I haven't had any more trouble with it. apropos : Of an appropriate or pertinent nature. https://en.wiktionary.…
Ohh I always thought "apropos" was from the French expression "à propos (de)... " which means "about". I naïvely believed that the person who coded this command must be French.
I have a simpler solution. The use case is not precisely the same, but for many scenarios, it's effectively the same. Simply, like many, I have bash set up to record commands in .bash_history. I have it flush all the time, so .bash_history is always current. # keep persistent bash history across sessions export PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a;history -n' export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups shopt -s histappend Next, I have a sim…