Название: Beginner’s Guide to the Unix Terminal: Learn bash and the Unix core utilities in a relaxed way
Автор: Leonardo Giordani
Издательство: Leanpub
Год: 2020-05-13
Страниц: 99
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

If you are a programmer, nowadays you probably got in touch with Open Source software, with version control system like Git, with cloud services like AWS, with some dynamic language like Python or Ruby. What do all these things have in common? Many things probably, but one of them is definitely that they are rooted in the Unix world.

That of Unix is a rich world, and this book will not even scratch the surface. but one of the most powerful things Unix systems have is the command line. Yes, today, with AIs constantly processing everything we search and do online, mobile phones with perfect user interfaces, and proper virtual reality around the corner, the good old green-on-black terminal still has something to say. More than something! The command line is a tool that I think will never get too old to be useful. I am happy when the GUI of some program is simple and well designed, but there is simply nothing that can give you more power than the command line. So, long story short, you should definitely learn at least the fundamentals of the command line!

Who this book is for:
This book is meant for anyone who wants to be more productive in a Unix environment such as Linux or Mac OS. This is an introductory textbook, so the reader is supposed to have no previous knowledge of the subject matter, and they should expect to learn the most important commands and concepts they might be using daily. In recent years the gap between developers and system administrators has been fortunately reduced in various ways, all under the umbrella of the devops philosophy, so this book will be useful to those developers that have to start getting in touch with the “bare metal”. These developers might find in the book a gradual learning curve and a quick reference for the most common commands of a Unix environment.

Many examples and exercises in the book use text files that are available on the GitHub page of the book.