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Julia Evans Aug 8, 2023

what helps people get comfortable on the command line? https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/08/what-helps-people-get-comfortable-on-the-command-line-/

Would love more stories of things that helped you in the last ~5 years!

(as usual, no need to reply if you don’t remember, or if you’ve been using the command line comfortably for 15 years — this question isn’t for you :) )

What helps people get comfortable on the command line?

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Anand Philip Aug 8, 2023

@b0rk 1. discovering that copying /moving files is so much easier on the command line. 2. the desperate need of having a lot of data stuck on a server I only can access via the shell. nothing like desperation to teach you stuff

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Anand Philip

@b0rk 3. jealousy. someone I hired would navigate their system entirely using the command-line and it made me insecure. for about 2 weeks i tried to emulate him. then I remembered that I am grown ass man.