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Why not get started early? Keeping track of some ideas to show some easy to use command line tools for beginners.

#NICAR15 command line basics

Why not get started early? Based on a discussion post-#NICAR14, this repo will keep track of some ideas to show command line newcomers some easy to use tools and time-saving tricks.

Maybe it's "Five command line tools and tricks to change your life" Or put a better way by @jacqui: "If we can (try to) demystify d3 we can (try to) demystify shell."

• env vars
• package managers
• awk
• sed
• cut
• tr
• iconv
• head
• tail
• pwd
• vim
• grep | ack
• cat
• >
• |
• sudo
• xargs / gnu parallel - easy map reduce
• csvkit and csv de dupe

Noah Veltman's The Command Line Murders: Teaching the Terminal with a Detective Noir

Linux Command-Line Cheat Sheet

Basics of Getting Around