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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers What is the best way to remember UNIX / Linux Commands? Post 303012895 by RudiC on Monday 12th of February 2018 07:12:40 AM

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There are many techniques out there pretending to help / teach you how to memorize even the most abstract things. From my perspective, experience is best, i.e. using / applying relevant commands again and again, best in different contexts, until you master a broad set of different helpers for different problems.
For the importance of commands, I can't help you, as this is dependent on the environment and the type of task(s), and it can change on a daily basis. Its best not to memoriize just the "important" subset commands but to master a broad set of different tools.

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spell(1)						      General Commands Manual							  spell(1)

NAME

       spell, spellin, spellout - Finds spelling errors

SYNOPSIS

       spell [-b] [-i  | -l] [-v  | -x] [-d hash_list] [-s hash_stop] [-h history_list] [+word_list] [file...]

       spellin [list] [number]

       spellout [-d] list

       The spell command reads words in file and compares them to those in a spelling list.  Default files contain English words only, but you can
       supply your own list of words in other languages.

STANDARDS

       Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:

       spell:  XCU5.0

       Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.

OPTIONS

       [Tru64 UNIX]  The following options are for the spell command only.  Checks for	correct  British  spelling.   Besides  preferring  centre,
       colour,	programme, speciality, travelled, and so on, this option causes spell to insist upon the use of the infix -ise in words like stan-
       dardise.  [Tru64 UNIX]  Specifies hash_list as the alternate spelling list. The default is /usr/lbin/spell/hlist[ab].  [Tru64 UNIX]  Speci-
       fies  history_list  as the alternate history list that is used to accumulate all output.  The default is /usr/lbin/spell/spellhist.  [Tru64
       UNIX]  Suppresses processing of included files through the and troff macros.  If the -i and -l options are both specified, the last one	of
       the two options entered on the command line takes effect.  [Tru64 UNIX]	Follows the chain of all included files (.so and

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