one command soundly missed is apropos. Need to do something, but don't happen to know it's exact name? Well, then. It's time for apropos!
MacBook-Pro:~ admin$ apropos download
CPAN(3pm) - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
lwp-download(1) - Fetch large files from the web
Wget(1) - The non-interactive network downloader
git-fetch(1) - Download objects and refs from another repository
git-http-fetch(1) - Download from a remote Git repository via HTTP
MacBook-Pro:~ admin$
works on Linux and OSX and it's saved my ass more than once time over the years whenever I knew there was a command to do something, but couldn't think of what it was.
one command soundly missed is apropos. Need to do something, but don't happen to know it's exact name? Well, then. It's time for apropos!
works on Linux and OSX and it's saved my ass more than once time over the years whenever I knew there was a command to do something, but couldn't think of what it was.
Nice catch and addition!