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if you just stopped being scared of the command line in the last year or three — what helped you?
(no need to reply if you don’t remember, or if you’ve been using the command line comfortably for 15 years — this question isn’t for you :) )
@b0rk I found the interactive cheat approach interesting. For example :
https://github.com/cheat/cheat
Because it became trivial to make your own with the command you need. And then it helps remember it.
But for the pipe mechanism or AWK, books is what helped me most. For example from A. Robbins, O'Reilly.
@altermachina @b0rk Isn't it somehow sad that something like that is needed despite the fact that most commands have man pages 
@altermachina @b0rk there is also tldr https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
@danrot both #cheat and #tldr don't replace man page, it's shorter and display only the most used/useful command line arguments
@slamp @altermachina @b0rk what I am saying is that man pages should IMO solve this issue as well, and many of them also have an examples section, which should do that job. They could be placed more prominently, but I would prefer that over having to know about man, tldr, ...
@slamp it also does not seem very sustainable to rely on 3rd parties for that.
@slamp @altermachina @b0rk Right, but then the #OpenSource way of fixing that would be to add more resp. better examples to the original man pages instead of introducing multiple other repositories.
@slamp @altermachina @b0rk Oh, and while we are talking about tools like that, one that I really like (because IMO it adds additional value) is https://explainshell.com/.
@danrot @slamp @altermachina @b0rk This can be a very very handy tool, especially for some of those obscure or complex commands. Saves a lot of man page grepping.