"Awful" was mean. Sorry. I just meant that IMO it's more productive to get familiar with the shell and demonstrate powerful shell alternatives than learning a

"Awful" was mean. Sorry. I just meant that IMO it's more productive to get familiar with the shell and demonstrate powerful shell alternatives than learning a handful of situation-specific CLI alternatives. Getting to know things like shell expansions, using ipython (or whatever) for adhoc data crunching, the "jq" command, sup/mutt/whatever and so on will make someone a much better CLI wrangler (and less dependent on GUI tools) than knowing you can Google from the command line.