Comments by "Javier Flores" (@JJFlores197) on "60 Linux Commands you NEED to know (in 10 minutes)" video.

I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that ifconfig was deprecated or at least removed in some distros. I know I had a hard time trying to set a static IP address on an ubuntu server I was setting up. ifconfig seemed to not be installed anymore and it looked like they were going to something called netbeans or something along those lines. Definitely seemed more complex to use as you had to edit a .yaml file.
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Let's say you need to create 20 directories. Sure, right clicking and creating a folder is easy. However, you will quickly realize that doing that 20 times is very inefficient. With a simple script, you can automatically create 20 folders or however many you want. It is upfront work to know how to work the terminal, but once you understand it, you can do a lot of tasks quickly and efficiently than through the graphical user interface. If you want to get into IT jobs and concepts, you will need to eventually have some understanding of command lines. A lot of utilities are exclusively used through a command line.
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