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 on Linux. Some tips are elementary, and some are fairly specific, sophisticated, or obscure. This page is not long, but if you can use and recall all the items here, you know a lot.

  • BaldProphet@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The command line is great. Why click “Install Updates” when you can type “sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade” instead?