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PLAYterm: a New Way To Improve Command Line Skills

Posted by timothy on from the if-they-say-the-word-paduan-run-away-fast dept.

chrb writes "Linux Journal points out PLAYterm, an interesting project that offers up recordings of Linux command line sessions, with the aim of helping viewers to improve their skills by watching gurus at work." And there's no bad excuse to link to Neal Stephenson's excellent (and free-to-download in delicious zipped-text form) In the Beginning was the Command Line.

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  1. Re:CLI fetish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    CLI = interactive, perl and python are not particularly well adapted to interactive use. And neither perl nor python was around at "the beginning of [UNIX] time", dating from 1987 and 1991 respectively. Perhaps you meant awk? That's a decade closer, published in 1977, but still pretty late. Before that, bourne shell was really the only general purpose scripting language widely available, and as a result grew the capabilites needed to fill that role well.

  2. Re:CLI fetish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's incredible that you thought this was relevant to the topic at hand.