I keep some as shell aliases, shell scripts or Git aliases, but mostly I just use my shell history, finding commands with Ctrl+R and a few characters that I know to be in there somewhere. (If you want to do this, make sure you set its limit high enough so you don’t lose stuff.)
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#12https://tldr.sh/
tldr is one of the best things to happen to the command line
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#13less "cheatsheet" and more just general notes for languages and vim and such:
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#15Shell scripting: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/04/shell-scripting-cheatsheet/ Markdown: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/04/markdown-cheatsheet/
> mkdir if not exists [ -d "${DIR}" ] || (mkdir -p "${DIR}") No need to check when using "-p".
You are absolutely right :-) I think, that this is a relict, since I personally use an alias for mkdir:
alias mkdir='mkdir -p'
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#16My cheatsheet happens to be just my muscle memory. And, for applications I don't use often, mostly just intuitive guesses.
Sounds pretty messy but I've never felt the need to maintain a cheatsheet.
I don't see why one would. I know I'm possibly being naive.
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#17On a related note: has anyone used a good tool for using/inserting these kinds of custom snippets? It would be neat to have a snippet manager with quick search bound to a keypress.
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#18I never did have a cheatsheet. Strange since I've been on the *nix journey since 1998.
I do like the cheat command but it's still not habitual to use it, I grew up with Google so I'm far too dependent on it.
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#19On a related note: has anyone used a good tool for using/inserting these kinds of custom snippets? It would be neat to have a snippet manager with quick search bound to a keypress.
Raycast has a code snippets plugin
https://www.raycast.com/ https://www.raycast.com/extensions/snippets/
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#20On a related note: has anyone used a good tool for using/inserting these kinds of custom snippets? It would be neat to have a snippet manager with quick search bound to a keypress.
I use https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/snippets/
Combined with https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/ you get great productivity, especially when working on sys admin terminal kind of stuff