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  • I think the general term for this is “domain sniping” or “catching”. From this, I also found this paid service, catches.io; can’t tell if it or dropcatch is better. They both only charge you when they are successful in catching the domain for you, which is good.

    In general, I second the notion that one probably can’t get around paying for a professional, paid service, since one is up against professionalized scoopers (godaddy and the like), who have put a lot of optimization (down to the placing of their servers) into trying to get an edge over legitimate buyers and competing scoopers.




  • A good start is to install tldr. You use it like man, but it gives you shorter explanations – or rather, a short list of illustrative examples.

    As for man pages themselves (which I often find overwhelming, too), if you’re not doing that already, you can pipe it into grep to extract just those lines that contain your search string:

    man ps | grep user
    
    # or for two lines of context above and below each match:
    man ps | grep user -C 2 
    

    Going further, check out Fish instead of Bash. I haven’t use Fish yet, but it’s said to be much better for learning Linux commands as a beginner. Later on, you may switch to Zsh. In any case, hitting Tab once or twice will often give you a list of possible completions to the command you are typing.

    PS: I see no good reason why anyone should downvote this question.

    Edit (June 23): As it so happens, just today I’ve stumbled into the O’Reilly book “Classic Shell Scripting” by Robbins and Beebe (ISBN 9780596005955). What can I say – its age notwithstanding, it’s apparently an extremely good book for understanding things and learning how to solve real problems. (It presupposes some familiarity with Unix-like systems and with the shell, so if one’s just starting out, the book “Learning the Unix Operating System” may be better.)