Terminals and You
Neill R.
Why Terminals?
Single Responsibility Principle
- Do one thing
- Do it well
$ ls
Documents Downloads Pictures Videos
Look like a hacker
History
- Thompson Shell (1971)
- Data redirection
- Interaction-only
- Bourne Shell (sh) (1977)
- Scripts
- Variables
-
if/for/case
- Bourne Again Shell (bash) (1989)
- Free!
- Tab completion
But what do I do?
Basic Commands
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ls
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cd
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mkdir/rmdir
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cp
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rm
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mv
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more/less
-
man
Redirection
- >, >>
- <, <<, <<<
- |
The Last Ingredient:
Creativity
(Insanity)
tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' |
tr A-Z a-z |
sort |
uniq -c |
sort -n |
tailNot too shabby.
Terminal Workflow
zsh
vim
tmux
Intimidating?
zsh
So
Many
Shortcuts
Efficiency is worth it
Tmux
(Terminal Multiplexer)