Mastodawn

I had not noticed that there was a new edition of "The Linux Command Line" until today.

If you use Linux, and perhaps especially if you are new to Linux, and want to get to grips with command line / terminal usage, it is well worth dipping into this free (CC BY-NC-ND) tome:

https://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

#books #Linux

Linux Command Line Books by William Shotts

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Neil Brown 1d ago

I am not telling anyone else how to Linux, but when I first started using it, I found this kind of thing invaluable.

I had, I think, a smaller book, "Linux Pocket Guide: Essential Commands" and that was so helpful too.

I am sure that one could use Linux without touching a terminal but, for me, the terminal is a fantastic and useful way of computing, and so upskilling in its usage has been time very well spent.

(See also books like "Practical vim" or "tmux in practice".)

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Space Hobo 1d ago

@neil
I learned so much from the O'Reilly " Unix Power Tools" book, which had a sort of discussion among the editors at times like "These are the only flags I use for this" vs "oh that's good, but my finger memory is for these switches..."

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Space Hobo

@neil It was actually that book plus a strange hardcover volume on DEC's OSF/1 that taught me to really Think In Unix.