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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. You can start it straight away.

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
OverTheWire wargames

OverTheWire

Bandit, levels 0–15

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Your route to The shell and command-line tools

Nothing has to come first, so the route is just this one stop. Tick it off when you’re done.

1 stop to go, about 8 hours of study.

Open a stop to see the book, the video course and the practice for it. Tick its circle when you've finished.

  1. 8 h

    Programming. Ready to start.

That's the whole route to The shell and command-line tools.

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