Remy Sharp Working the Command Line

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 Demaree

Product manager at Google Fonts 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 Hay

Author 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 Robertson

Front-end developer and writer

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 Westby

Author of Git for Teams