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I never really got to be a command line wizard even after 7 years of using it daily. After some time it struck me that I am somewhat of a wizard in Ruby and mos
by redka 8y ago
I never really got to be a command line wizard even after 7 years of using it daily. After some time it struck me that I am somewhat of a wizard in Ruby and most of the things that I need to to in the terminal would be really easy for me if I could make use of my Ruby skills in a more natural way. I came up with rb [1] which made it possible and I no longer read man pages of simple unix tools
[1] https://github.com/thisredone/rb https://github.com/thisredone/rb
- commandlinefan 8y agoI'm about the closest to a command-line wizard that I know personally, but the only reason is that I grew up on the command-line - I had already graduated college before GUIs were common. I'm not entirely convinced that, in today's era, spending the time it takes to really master the command line is honestly worth it; you need to know how to do some things, but there are probably better tools for most of these jobs. A lot of what I do naturally with sed, awk, cut, paste, uniq, sort and tr could be done just as quickly and naturally in Excel; I just use the command line because I already know it.
- jimbokun 8y agoThat...is actually quite clever. Convenience of the command line, with the expressive power of Ruby. Nice.