command prompter

[Terrence Enger]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:41 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Terrence Enger wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I am used, working on another platform, to having a tool which relieves
> > of the need to remember command line parameters ... sort of an entry
> > panel with brief prompts and hyperlinks to the applicable part of the
> > man page.
> > 
> > Is there such a tool for GNU/Linux?  Nothing applicable jumped out at me
> > from the first hundred results of a google search for linux command
> > prompter.
> > 
> > If this does not already exist, is there anybody else who thinks maybe
> > it should?  If anybody expresses an interest, I shall put together an
> > example of what it might do for you.
> 
>     You could do it with bash's completion functions.
> 

Does that know anything about the paramaters needed for particular
commands.  For example, it is not long since I went to `man find` for a
reminder that I wanted to specify argument -wholename instead of -name,
the latter being what my fingers unhelpfully remembered.

Cheers,
Terry.


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