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Remy Sharp Working the Command Line

foreword by Jeremy Keith

However you’ve wound up face-to-face with the cool glow of a terminal window, Remy Sharp is here to help.

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Don’t fear the terminal. No, really. However you’ve wound up face-to-face with the cool glow of a terminal window, Remy Sharp is here to help. Gain command-line shortcuts and processing techniques, install new tools and diagnose problems, and fully customize your terminal for a better, more powerful workflow.

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Contents

  1. “Just Open the Terminal...”
  2. Install All the Things
  3. Tools of the Terminal Trade
  4. How (not) To Shoot Yourself In The Foot
  5. Making the Shell Your Own

Recommended with…

Working the Command Line

by Remy Sharp

Working the Command Line
Making Sense of Color Management

Making Sense of Color Management

by Craig Hockenberry

Customize your terminal for a better, more powerful workflow and get clarity in the tricky endeavor of managing color.

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What People Are Saying

  • You can't build websites these days without using command-line tools—something many of us still find strange and scary. Fortunately, Remy Sharp is here to help. From the basics of piping commands together to tricking out your prompt, this book is a great introduction to terminal basics. It’s full of tips and tricks to help beginners—and even an experienced hand like myself—learn to become more confident and productive.

    —David DemareeProduct manager at Adobe Typekit and author of Git for Humans

  • The command line can be a quick, expressive, and effective way to accomplish many tasks. It's also very friendly; it just waits for your commands and only does what you tell it to. The problem is that many learning materials are not approachable for people with zero command-line knowledge. With this book, Remy offers you a way to discover a new world of productivity.

    —Stephen Hayauthor of Responsive Design Workflow

  • This book is perfectly titled. The command line is intimidating and difficult, but Remy walks you through it, acknowledging that it can be both of those things while using humor and grace to show you how powerful it is. I’m more confident working with the command line having this book by my side.

    —Susan RobertsonInclusive web developer at Bocoup

  • I remember the first time someone taught me about tab-completion at the command line. Suddenly, I was infinitely more effective. Remy's book is the same; it's like sitting down with your buddy and learning the secret hand signals you never even knew existed.

    —Emma Jane Westbyauthor of Git for Teams

About the Author

Remy Sharp has been working commercially on the web since 1999 and blogging for over a decade. He runs his own consultancy, has been writing JavaScript long before it was cool, and founded the web conference ffconf in 2009. Remy tends to attract bugs and he enjoys squishing them. He uses the terminal daily.

Additional Info

  • ISBN: 978-1-937557-49-2
  • PDF: 81 pages
  • Published: Dec 8, 2016

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