State of this book is current a working draft with the goal of having it widely available (including Amazon and other book publishers) by May 4th, 2023. While open issues are welcome as suggestions, no PRs will be accepted.
Wanna become a terminal master? This is the way.
Terminal Velocity is a free1 collection of tutorials, tips, and tricks used by long-time UNIX terminal users to help you master the most powerful and ubiquitous terminal commands available today. It's not enough to just learn these commands. You need to understand what they are good for and why, how deeply each needs to be understood, how do they work together, how to apply the UNIX philosophy to combine them together in truly mind-blowing ways.
Terminal Velocity also responses to challenges like "Why use a terminal at all?" (spoiler alert: it's not just because terminal users are "old and backward"); and "Why not use this other command?" Having these answers reduces subjective debate giving you more time to do productive things with nothing but a terminal and a keyboard (as well as when AFK).
- Only Bash Shell Programming
- Content Organization and Style
- What commands exactly?
- Fastest Human-Computer Interface
- Get Bash
- Edit Without Installing
- It's All Code
- Multiplex Flex
- Research from Command-Line
- Contain Yourself
- Stuff Left Out on Purpose
- Frequently Answered Questions
Footnotes
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