It's about moving from treating the shell as a fancier program launcher to the full Unix experience that treats the shell as a powerful interactive programming

It's about moving from treating the shell as a fancier program launcher to the full Unix experience that treats the shell as a powerful interactive programming environment. Several reasonably realistic examples are used to demonstrate how pipelines can be built on the fly to solve problems very quickly. Don't over-engineer if a "half-assed"[1] shell one liner does a good enough job. (even if it takes 3 lines). The intended audience is people new(-ish?) to Unix that. Unix veterans already understand this stuff, but might want to watch the talk anyway because the presenter, Gary Bernhardt[2], has (in my opinion) a fun and unique presentation style. > very inaudible Yah, unfortunately the audio track is overly quiet. It's generally fine (albeit low fidelity) after heavy amplification. [1] a running joke in the talk [2] You may have seen his other talks[3], such as "Wat" or "The Birth & Death of Javascript" [3] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks