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I consider myself reasonably proficient in the shell, but I learned something just from your sample pages (process substitution). Purchased!
If you have not skimmed through the manual of bash¹ enough to learn about process substitutions, what makes you think you would read a book ? 1. https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html >
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I consider myself reasonably proficient in the shell, but I learned something just from your sample pages (process substitution). Purchased!
If you have not skimmed through the manual of bash¹ enough to learn about process substitutions, what makes you think you would read a book ? 1. https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html >
From reading the sample of OP's book, it seems far more practical and accessible than the bash manual, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people would read OP's book that have no interest in reading the bash manual cover to cover.
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I consider myself reasonably proficient in the shell, but I learned something just from your sample pages (process substitution). Purchased!
If you have not skimmed through the manual of bash¹ enough to learn about process substitutions, what makes you think you would read a book ? 1. https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html >
I’ll go to the manual if I’m trying to understand how a particular thing works, or how to do a particular thing, but it’s not as useful to me for feature discovery.
Cool, couple of comments. The website it a bit broken on mobile (at least for me) since text goes off the screen. Second, it would be good to have some sample pages or at least a page of contents so people can see the level of detail the book is aimed at. I know I could just get the book for free and then pay later but that kind of a faff and I feel bad choosing $0 for these kinds of things.
I'd love to read a table of contents. I don't want to rip you off with zero dollars!
Anyway, sounds like a great book. Congratulations on completing and "shipping"!
It makes me wonder – what's that one command or concept you CLI vets wish you'd learned way earlier that totally changed your game, something that might be in that 'next 20%'? Curious about those 'aha!' moments!
Cool, couple of comments. The website it a bit broken on mobile (at least for me) since text goes off the screen. Second, it would be good to have some sample pages or at least a page of contents so people can see the level of detail the book is aimed at. I know I could just get the book for free and then pay later but that kind of a faff and I feel bad choosing $0 for these kinds of things.
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The older standard tools, because they can be easily put in CI pipelines and shared as scripts with coworkers. For example, in my personal and professional life I use Make everywhere. The book mentions alternatives, but the examples are built on the time-tested tools. I focused on things that don't require install (if given the option) or the ones that you are more likely to encounter at work. It is a tradeoff and I…
<3 GNU Make