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Efficient Linux at the CLI (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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How to Be an Efficient Command Line User

Mike Downey: I got into efficient command line use largely because of the experiences like the one that you just cited about the engineer who was quitting the editor and restarting it. He says there are probably three or four completely transformative things that he learned at the command line that each one of them just made him so much more efficient than he never looked back. "Command line interfaces are the most interesting because every time you type a command, you are solving a puzzle," downey says.

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