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Don't fear the command line: Manipulation

Dionysia Lemonaki on June 26, 2020

On my quest to stop being intimidated by the command line, the more I learn about it, the more fascinated I become by it. In my last post ,which y...

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Meike • Jun 26 '20

This was such a great read! Thank you so much! I even learned something new!! 😃
I really enjoy the way you write, Dionysia! It's such a pleasure to read, your gifs always make me grin and your explanations are so clear and easy to understand - I wish I had these articles when I first started out getting familiar with the command line! :) I can't wait to read more from you! 😊

Dionysia Lemonaki • Jun 26 '20

Your comment made me day :)
Thank you so much for your support and the nice words you said to me. You are one of the kindest people I have come across.
Thanks again :)

Meike • Jun 26 '20

Oh, of course! I absolutely mean it, it's always such a joy to see people being so genuinely interested and excited about code and tech and everything that comes along with it! I'm so glad that you decided to invest the time in writing out and sharing all your findings, so again, if anything, I thank you! 😅😊 I'm just stoked to -alt list everything from now on! 😄

Dionysia Lemonaki • Jun 26 '20

This makes me so happy, yes -alt on everything from now on haha :)

Waylon Walker • Jun 26 '20 • Edited

#meta DEV tip

In my last post ,which you can read here, I talked about the absolute basics

using liquid tags to promote your previous posts gives it a bit more visual flair and breaks up the document a bit.

{% post deniselemonaki/don-t-fear-the-command-line-navigation-57od %}

Don't fear the command line: Navigation

Dionysia Lemonaki ・ Jun 19 ・ 2 min read

#beginners #codenewbie

Dionysia Lemonaki • Jun 26 '20

Thank you for that tip!

Designer Anna • Jul 1 '20 • Edited

Thanks for this small revision course of command line commands.
The best one I like is the ' rm ' command, which can be used both for moving and renaming files.

Also, I just realised that I cannot empty bin folder with that command.
Keep Coding, keep growing.!

Dionysia Lemonaki • Jul 1 '20

Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it! :)

Waylon Walker • Jun 26 '20

Learning the command and being comfortable with it is a super-power. There are things that seem easier and more intuitive with a GUI for most of us. But once you get more comfortable you start to find ways that you can script it, which makes you feel like a wizard. You can also start setting up aliases that do things that you do often with very few keystrokes. At some point, the GUI starts to feel a bit barbaric in comparison.