I like that you use the word "commandments" instead of commands. At least these are not written in stone tablets....
It might help to mention that this goes only for POSIX compliant operating systems. Not for Powershell or DOS prompts.
But I agree that it can be daunting to start working with the terminal on UNIX/Linux/OSX/FreeBSD etc.
However, the power lies in the fact that these commands can be executed from scripts and thus you can program any flow of execution. This can't be done in a GUI without bothering setting up some advanced GUI interpretation tool. Which doesn't scale properly is mundane and error prone when the GUI changes.
The terminal hardly changes. These tools have been around for decades and decades.
To me, the productivity rises when I can automate stuff from the terminal using scripts. Heck, this is where most DevOps etc. finds its own roots.
Nice to see that even newbies dare to look into it, picking it up and even writing posts about it!
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I like that you use the word "commandments" instead of commands. At least these are not written in stone tablets....
It might help to mention that this goes only for POSIX compliant operating systems. Not for Powershell or DOS prompts.
But I agree that it can be daunting to start working with the terminal on UNIX/Linux/OSX/FreeBSD etc.
However, the power lies in the fact that these commands can be executed from scripts and thus you can program any flow of execution. This can't be done in a GUI without bothering setting up some advanced GUI interpretation tool. Which doesn't scale properly is mundane and error prone when the GUI changes.
The terminal hardly changes. These tools have been around for decades and decades.
To me, the productivity rises when I can automate stuff from the terminal using scripts. Heck, this is where most DevOps etc. finds its own roots.
Nice to see that even newbies dare to look into it, picking it up and even writing posts about it!