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It's weird that Linux certification requires rote-memorization of commands. The only people who make any effort to memorize commands are newbies and people studding for exams. You will always have access to bash history, man, and --help, even from an offline machine.
Every command I've memorized is simply the natural process of repetition. Is that your experience?
Yes. But also, despite having done it literally thousands of times, I still can't tell you which way round to put the target and the link name for a softlink on the first go.
My first guess is always
No amount of repetition will fix this.
I used to have that problem with ln until I realized it’s essentially the same ordering as cp: source, then destination. The source being the existing file that you’re linking to, and the destination being the link that you’re creating
My trick to remember:
You can link to a target without giving a name to the link. ln will use the basename of the target file then. You can't create a link without a target, so target has to go first since it's not optional. Did it for me
I feel seen
🤣 same
Are you trying to say I'm not a newbie with over 20 years of experience?
People are worried about losing skills to AI while all the skills have already been lost to Google and stack exchange 😅
Mine too. Been tinkering with Linux since I was a lad, sudo apt get / sudo apt update is ingrained into my brain.
Now, after running openSUSE Tumbleweed, sudo zypper ref / sudo zypper dup
Still a Linux noob, but I have never loved an operating system more than I have openSUSE. :)