Comments by "John Hunt" (@syrus3k) on "Is the terminal still worth learning?" video.

  1. Amiga vim!? Amaze!
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  2. Here's my terminal tips! 1. Stop typing 'exit'. Ctrl+D. 2. Stop using home/end keys: Ctrl+A / Ctrl+E 3. Learn to use Ctrl+R - recursive backwards search through history. This is massively powerful 4. Undo? Yup, it's ctrl+shift - (I think.. only in my muscle memory?!?) 5. Learn some basic vim, it's not that hard and makes a lot more sense when you understand the modes 6. Remember you can pipe outputs of commands into other commands.. this can help you be lazy: find . | grep -i somefilename # A bad but working way to find all files in the tree with somefilename The terminal isn't the be all and end all, but I find it way, way better for getting around the filesystem than any gui. When you learn various other tools the benefits of the terminal become apparent.. you can start plugging one thing into another using pipes etc and you can't do that with gui tools (afaik?!) It's like learning anything though.. it won't happen overnight.
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  3. While I'm here, please check out using ln to create hard links, or rsync to create hard links. Amazing for creating delta based backups..
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