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My one-shot memory worsened with years but grasping concepts from examples got much better due to experience. So I find walls of text much less useful than a continuous “synopsis” of snippets and best practices. One usage example is worth a hundred of words and few pages of it may be worth a whole manual, especially when “at hand” through editor means. For bash idk if that exists on the internet, so I maintain my own in my one big text file. I wish every manual had the synopsis-only section (maybe I should just LLM these).


> One usage example is worth a hundred words ... For bash idk if that exists on the internet, ...

Totally agree with that - I maintain a big txt file too.

Maybe this bash compendium is a bit similar:

https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse


You might like these:

• <https://learnxinyminutes.com/>

And some code search engines:

• Debian: <https://codesearch.debian.net/>

• Python: <https://www.programcreek.com/python/>

• Linux: <https://livegrep.com/search/linux>

• GitHub: <https://grep.app/>

• HTML, JS and CSS: <https://publicwww.com/>




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