It took me two decades to finally decide to memorize "... | awk '{print $1}'" as a command pipeline idiom for filtering stdout for the first column (... "awk '{print $2}'" for the second column, and so on).
All it required from me was to intentionally and manually type it down by hand instead of copy-pasting, on two purposeful occasions (within two minutes). Since then it's successfully saved in my brain.
All it required from me was to intentionally and manually type it down by hand instead of copy-pasting, on two purposeful occasions (within two minutes). Since then it's successfully saved in my brain.