Why EVERY programmer should learn the terminal 👩‍💻 #software #developer #programming #tech #code

[vikingthedude]

The reasons you state don’t seem to show us why we shouldn’t just use the gui programs.

For me the reason to use the terminal is that commands are consistent (i.e. options are almost always denoted by dashes, etc),
Commands are composable (pipe and redirection operators)
Commands can be saved because they’re just text. So this makes it easy to share with others, re-execute from a backup, documentation etc. That’s much harder in GUI programs

[joebuydem]

It would be helpful if you put theses commands in a pinned comment at the top. 😊

[matheusjahnke]

you see.... I'm probably taking 10x the time googling for the command and reading the --help of the program(or manual page of the program) when compared to just using a GUI.

On the upside. This means I'm a 10x engineer.
And not a -10x engineer.

[arranmc]

it's sudo not sudoh as sudo is an abbreviation of "Super User DO", calling it SUDOH makes you sound like your advice should be ignored if you cant even get the name of what your talking about right.

[sinaan]

Try this in the terminal:
'sudo rm -rf'

at your own risk

[edgarwideman]

No. You don't need to know the terminal at all these days. And no, the terminal is not faster. Welcome to 2023. Also who uses Linux 😆🙈