> Ask HN: how did you learn the command line? I had no choice -- for most of my computing career, there wasn't anything else. in fact, when I first got into co

> Ask HN: how did you learn the command line? I had no choice -- for most of my computing career, there wasn't anything else. in fact, when I first got into computing, I would have sold my left arm to gain access to a command line interface. When I see a typical modern command line (a shell session), it's enclosed in a separate window, and I'm reminded how far we've come in a short time. Before I had access to a terminal, I was writing programs anyway -- http://arachnoid.com/programmable_calculators http://arachnoid.com/programmable_calculators -- and my first terminal's output (while working for NASA in the early 1970s) was a roll of paper. So that's my answer -- I had no choice. Oh, p.s., here's my Bash tutorial: http://arachnoid.com/linux/shell_programming.html http://arachnoid.com/linux/shell_programming.html