Programming
The shell and command-line tools
Moving around files, pipes, small scripts and an editor you're fast in. Nobody teaches this, everybody expects it.
About 8 hours of study.
Where to learn it
Read
The Linux Command Line
William Shotts
Part 1, Learning the shell
Free, patient and complete. Read it with a terminal open.
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Watch
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (MIT)
Anish Athalye, Jon Gjengset, Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz
Course Overview + Introduction to the Shell; Command-line Environment; Development Environment and Tools
Practise
Wrong chapter, dead link, or know something better? Tell us on GitHub.
Which roles ask for it
- Backend engineer to get hired
- Data engineer to get hired
- DevOps / site reliability engineer to get hired
- Quant developer to get hired
- MLOps engineer to get hired
- Platform engineer to get hired
- System administrator to get hired
- Database administrator to get hired
- Penetration tester to get hired
- Cloud engineer to get hired
- Application support engineer to get hired
- Security analyst (SOC) to get hired
Before and after
Learn first
Nothing. You can start here.
The shell and command-line tools