====== Vade Mecum ==
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When I was learning Unix in the early nineties I struggled with the syntax of commands at the console. To help myself learn, every time I "discovered" a new command, I'd record it so I had a known good starting point the next time I needed something similar. For years I kept it as a text file in ~/etc, but when I discovered wiki's I moved it to a wiki page so I could more easily get to it from anywhere.

Inspired by [[https://twitter.com/blackencino|Chris Horvath]], who taught me the phrase [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vade_mecum|vade mecum]] or "//go with me//" in Latin, it has now been updated and moved here.

To make it quick and easy to use, create an function in your ''.bashrc'' which looks like this:

<code>
vade () { curl --silent "http://adam.nz/vade?do=export_text" | egrep -v "(^ *$)" | egrep -A 1 "^#.*(${1}).*$"; }

</code>

And then you can search the page, for any keyword, from the command line:

<code>
# vade <keyword>
</code>

See also: [[library:in_the_beginning_was_the_command_line]]
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