jlevy/the-art-of-command-line
Master the command line, in one page
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🌍 Čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ Ελληνικά ∙ English ∙ Español ∙ Français ∙ Indonesia ∙ Italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ polski ∙ Português ∙ Română ∙ Русский ∙ Slovenščina ∙ Українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 Note: I'm planning to revise this and looking for a new co-author to help with expanding this into a more comprehensive guide. While it's very popular, it could be broader and a bit deeper. If you like to write and are close to being an expert on this material and willing to consider helping, please drop me a note at josh (0x40) holloway.com. –jlevy, Holloway. Thank you! Fluency on the command line is a skill often neglected or considered arcane, but it improves your flexibility and productivity as an engineer in both obvious and subtle ways. This is a selection of notes and tips on using the command-line that we've found useful when working…
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- The Art of Command Line
- Meta
- Basics
- Everyday use
- Processing files and data
- System debugging
- One-liners
- Obscure but useful
- macOS only
- Windows only
- Ways to obtain Unix tools under Windows
- Useful Windows command-line tools
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What this repository does
Master the command line, in one page
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- jlevy
- Primary language
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- Stars
- 162,634
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- 14,934
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- 256
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- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2015-05-20T15:11:03.000Z
- Last push
- 2024-06-25T18:13:44.000Z
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Owner-supplied topics: bash, documentation, linux, macos, unix, windows
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