command prompter

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Terrence Enger wrote:

> 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.

   You would have to program them, just as would have had to be done
   for other platform.

>  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.

   For a list of operands:

man find | grep '^ *-'

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