I am curious to know what trick you use to remember options for various commands? Looking up man pages all the time is time consuming and not so cool!
How do you remember command options?
shell;command
The trick is simple: You just don't. It's a waste of time and just not necessary. Memorizing command options isn't a particularly useful skill. It's much more important to understand how stuff works in general and to have a vague idea which tools exist in the first place and what you use them for. A very important skill here is to know how to find out about stuff you don't know yet.Man pages are time consuming? Not so. It's not like you have to read them - at least, not every time - there is a search function. So if I don't remember which cryptic option was the one for hdparm to disable idle timer on some WD disks, I do man hdparm and /idle3 and hey, it was -J. Looking stuff like that up is so quick I don't even remember doing it afterwards.Imagine someone actually memorizing all of the hdparm options. What a waste of time.It's fine if you just happen to remember options because you use them frequently. That happens automatically without even thinking about it. But actually consciously spending time on memorizing them... what's that supposed to be good for? A paper test?