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There’s two ways of going about things. Copy pasting without understanding which means you never learn. Or understanding what you’re being given to run to learn.
Ai, stack exchange, some docs if you are running stuff without trying to understand what its doing you won’t learn things. If you take the time to understand it then you’ll be fine. As much as i hate ai its rather good at giving you a quick explanation of what you’re doing. If you are relinquishing your judgement to ai then yeah you wont be learning anything.
I’ve been using linux for about 18 years now its not something you ever really stop learning your way around. What I tend to do is keep notes in Joplin when i figure out how to do something so I can come back later. Its been invaluable making my own docs for the stuff i need to do
Oh and then there’s the things you’ll never learn to do. Like tar and the find command. I never remember them, i dont know why but i just dont
Find is easy. Off the dome: The search dir comes first which is whack. Then you want single dashes for the long options. Type is like f,d, or l? depth is what it says on the tin. Then regexes for the pattern and you're good?
My eyes blurred reading this comment and I continue to not know find. And I will never know find till my last breath. You cant make me know it
Growth comrade.
A fascist hacked out an awk script to parse files today, did you?
Yeah? Well while you were out partying with find and awk I studied the xrandr, i was moulded by iptables, born with ffmpeg. I am the one true knower of the xorg codebase