I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I was expecting the "Read more" link to reveal more content instead of linking me off to another site (that's what I expected the next link to do, but instead it's a duplicate).
Is that what you intended? It makes it difficult to comment or carry on the conversation here because that link might disappear, or people might not want to go to another site with popups, etc.
I will comment though on this arbitrary list: cd, ls, mkdir? Sure. But the rest?
touch isn't essential. I bet most people don't use it once in a day.
The touch command is used to create a file.
There are a million ways of creating a file, overloading touch to do it isn't even the most obvious. Touch is used to update the file access and modification timestamps, and creating a file if it doesn't already exist is just a by-product of that.
pwd isn't essential. Most people's default prompts have the path in them out the box on modern "friendly" operating systems.
clear isn't essential. You don't need to clear your terminal, really. Anyway, Ctrl-L is a shortcut that works in plenty of applications as well as terminals, and is arguably a better thing to learn. Or maybe reset.
Thank you very much for reading and your comment (highly appreciated).
As regards the abbreviated post with a "Read more" link, it was never my intention. I guess it has to do with RSS settings or configuration. I noticed that recently on the last 3 posts.
I've written to the "dev.to" admin on how it can be fixed (i.e. returned to the status quo).
As regards your observations:
Essential??? That sounds as personal preference to me.
Anyways;
touch does a very good job for creating files (especially when they do not exist, that's the point), and it works.
pwd -> depends on your definition of "modern friendly" OS, then what about the "unfriendly" OS?
CTR-L is the same thing with clear (more like saying "water" and "rain").
Thank you again for reading. Stay Awesome!
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I was expecting the "Read more" link to reveal more content instead of linking me off to another site (that's what I expected the next link to do, but instead it's a duplicate).
Is that what you intended? It makes it difficult to comment or carry on the conversation here because that link might disappear, or people might not want to go to another site with popups, etc.
I will comment though on this arbitrary list: cd, ls, mkdir? Sure. But the rest?
touch
isn't essential. I bet most people don't use it once in a day.There are a million ways of creating a file, overloading
touch
to do it isn't even the most obvious. Touch is used to update the file access and modification timestamps, and creating a file if it doesn't already exist is just a by-product of that.pwd
isn't essential. Most people's default prompts have the path in them out the box on modern "friendly" operating systems.clear
isn't essential. You don't need to clear your terminal, really. Anyway, Ctrl-L is a shortcut that works in plenty of applications as well as terminals, and is arguably a better thing to learn. Or maybereset
.Thank you very much for reading and your comment (highly appreciated).
As regards the abbreviated post with a "Read more" link, it was never my intention. I guess it has to do with RSS settings or configuration. I noticed that recently on the last 3 posts.
I've written to the "dev.to" admin on how it can be fixed (i.e. returned to the status quo).
As regards your observations:
Essential??? That sounds as personal preference to me.
Anyways;
touch
does a very good job for creating files (especially when they do not exist, that's the point), and it works.pwd
-> depends on your definition of "modern friendly" OS, then what about the "unfriendly" OS?CTR-L is the same thing with
clear
(more like saying "water" and "rain").Thank you again for reading. Stay Awesome!