Learning by doing is probably the way most people learn their unixcraft. It also helps if you have a friend or a team member who is a lot more experienced than

Learning by doing is probably the way most people learn their unixcraft. It also helps if you have a friend or a team member who is a lot more experienced than you, a go-to guy with infinite patience to your stupid questions. I had the privilege of working with a badass russian unix hacker for some time, he taught me how to do black magic with find, grep, sort and uniq.