For the CLI wallet, how can I teach myself all that it can do?

Question

Monero has motivated me to get interested in Linux. I'm relatively inexperienced with Linux. To those more experienced, this question may seem like a silly one. I expect I'm not the only Linux n00b (well, CLI n00b), so I hope this question helps many people.

I've managed to install Monero on Ubuntu a few times now. Once I get it installed, I only know that ./monerod (formerly ./bitmonerod) will make the daemon run. Once it's running, I can type --help for a list of commands. Similarly, I can get monero-wallet-cli (formerly, simplewallet) running, and I can run --help there too for its commands. My knowledge pretty much ends there. But I know there is much more that those two programs can do.

For example, I've asked on IRC chat whether I can run a node on one computer that I always keep on, and then run the wallet from another computer that only refreshes itself from my personal node. The IRC fellow mentioned adding commands like --rpc-bind-ip and --daemon-host. Are those commands listed somewhere? Where do I find the full list?

I hope a question so basic will help lots of people in my shoes that want to get their hands dirty, but are missing some [probably pretty elementary] tools.

Answer 1

You just have to type help BEFORE running the software, like ./monerod --help

Answer 2

Utilise the "flag" --help to see additional options regarding the software. i.e './monerod --help'

Answer 3

Using monero is teaching me....find a use case for it or some reason to justify spending the fee, and do a little experimenting with it. Having used monero a handful of times, i've learned a bit about payment ID's. Did you know that to use shapeshift for example, you have to use a payment ID? When I learned that, it seems like payment ID's will be necessary often with Monero because of the inherant anonymity features.