@LynnTheChaoticWitch@feddit.nl to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoHow can I get better at the CLI?message-square12fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1message-squareHow can I get better at the CLI?@LynnTheChaoticWitch@feddit.nl to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square12fedilink
I have some basic experience but I wanna be proficient and have a cli based workflow; I’m currently on Arch with GNOME
minus-squareRic0lalinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoStart to use command line tools like mutt, links and so on. Okay, maybe not links, but mutt is still the best MUA around. And whenever you are asked to get some data out of an excel sheet, export it to csv and use sed, awk, grep, wc, cut, uniq, sort, head, tail and stuff. No, stuff is not a command afaik 😁
minus-squareArcaneslimelinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year ago“Stuff” should be a compression tool, you tar it, then gz it, then stuff it down even further into tar.gz.stuff
Start to use command line tools like mutt, links and so on. Okay, maybe not links, but mutt is still the best MUA around.
And whenever you are asked to get some data out of an excel sheet, export it to csv and use sed, awk, grep, wc, cut, uniq, sort, head, tail and stuff.
No, stuff is not a command afaik 😁
“Stuff” should be a compression tool, you tar it, then gz it, then stuff it down even further into tar.gz.stuff