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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 Nursie · · Score: 4, Informative

    Python wasn't around at the beginning of time. Perl I'm not so sure about. Also, the users of both languages would probably get annoyed at them being called scripting languages. That's just one thing you can do with them.

    Add on top of that that scripting in bash or csh is very powerful, and that you can get a lot of things done in a one liner if you know what you're doing...

    It's hard to see how you could be more wrong!

  2. Re:CLI fetish by martin-boundary · · Score: 5, Interesting
    bash is a lot more powerful than python or perl, for small and medium complexity tasks. It is certainly better at interactive uses, and it is much better at piping than either of those languages.

    Use python or perl for complex tasks by all means, but they are a poor substitute for what the shell is good for.