My mnemonic is a bit weird, purrent working directory. I know the term cwd (current working directory) but I never bothered to learn what the p stands for, so I named it myself as purrent.
On a side note:
I hate it that the password-change command is minimally abbreviated to “passwd”.
Come on, making it much more complicated to remember and saving just two freakin letters??“umount” is worse
But the only command that I have to look up every damn time, although it has no abbreviation at all, is useradd.
Oh no, wait, I mean adduser!
… No, wait again… aah…Next update changes it to usadder as a compromise. Supposedly, it’s short for “user adder” but we all know it’s to make “[you] sadder”.
🤷 that’s why we have ls, rm, mv and hell, even w.
To confuse things even more there’s a utility called pwgen and I can never remember which two letters to type before hitting autocomplete.
mv = move, thus:
- rm = rome
- ls = lose
- cd = code
- w = woe
That is so cool.
So
- tr = tore
- tty = totey
- rsync = rosynce
- ps = pose
- pr = pore
- mpd = moped
I could do this all day.
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alias ‘where_the_fuck_am_i’=“pwd”
alias who_the_fuck_am_i='whoami'alias what_the_hell_is_going_on='btop'alias who_the_fuck_is_that=fingeralias finger_me='finger $USER'
My kryptonite is
duwhich reports disk usage, anddfwhich reports disk file size, or no, wait,duis file size anddfis disk usage.Most of the time I can only remember whichever one I don’t need at the moment and futilely hope that its man page will mention the other (which it doesn’t).
I’m always like “
dushows disk usage of files, anddfshows how much of disk is free”.
