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Sometimes I talk to friends who need to use the command line, but are intimidated by it. I never really feel like I have good advice (I’ve been using the command line for too long), and so I asked some people on Mastodon:
if you just stopped being scared of the command line in the last year or three — what helped you?
This list is still a bit shorter than I would like, but I’m posting it in the hopes that I can collect some more answers. There obviously isn’t one single thing that works for everyone – different people take different paths.
I think there are three parts to getting comfortable: reducing risks, motivation and resources. I’ll start with risks, then a couple of motivations and then list some resources.
I’d add ImageMagick for image manipulation and conversion to the list. I use it to optimize jpg’s which led me to learn more about bash scripting.
They basically aren’t?
If you’re doing one-off hobbyist stuff, maybe.
But literally anything in a professional setting should be in text that can be committed and searched in a source code repository. If you can’t commit it to git, it didn’t happen.
Logging called, they want their . log files back
I’m not sure if you’re being funny, but of course committing the output of your program isn’t what I was saying.
Sorry I literally misread your comment, let’s say I was trying to be funny lol
you could document the steps required in text and add Screenshots.
That’s fine until a UI changes, or the steps to reproduce it are incomplete (or a human doesn’t follow them exactly).
Text commands are unambiguous and precise.