We all know this. We need to do a specific task and with the help of the internet we find a specific tool alongside command line parameters to do the job right from the shell.
What is a good way of collecting/documenting these snippets on your own for future reference and use? Just a text file in the home folder?
There is a command called
tldr. it’s works similar to what you have described.If you like TUI you might find this useful:
Ctrl+R
i use a joplin notebook. its like a private wiki, and it works on android too.
I do mine in Obsidian, I just have a folder for ‘computer notes’ and whenever I figure out a new thing I drop it in there.
Some stuff I use often I set up as an alias too. So for example I have
alias yt='yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4"'for my most commonly used yt-dlp settings, so now I can just doyt [URL of video]to quickly download something from YouTube. Oralias rs="sudo rsync --ignore-existing -rav"for my rsync settings for a specific backup folder I copy a lot.I put mine as zsh autoloads. This way feels almost as light as creating aliases once set ut, and also allows for the scripts to have slow initializing code and still be readily available, without having to load everything immediately when zshrc loads and wait for it all the time, even when you might not need it.
