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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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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

intro

INTRO(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  INTRO(1)

NAME

     intro -- introduction to general commands (tools and utilities)

DESCRIPTION

     Section one of the manual contains most of the commands which comprise the BSD user environment.  Some of the commands included in section
     one are text editors, command shell interpreters, searching and sorting tools, file manipulation commands, system status commands, remote
     file copy commands, mail commands, compilers and compiler tools, formatted output tools, and line printer commands.

     All commands set a status value upon exit which may be tested to see if the command completed normally.  The exit values and their meanings
     are explained in the individual manuals.  Traditionally, the value 0 signifies successful completion of the command.

SEE ALSO

     man(1), intro(2), intro(3), intro(4), intro(5), intro(6), intro(7), intro(8), intro(9)

     The Regents of the University of California, UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents, University of California, Berkeley,
     http://www.netbsd.org/docs/bsd/lite2/usd.html, June, 1993.

HISTORY

     An intro(1) manual appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

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