Drew DeVault • 12/12/2020

Become shell literate

This article advocates for shell literacy as a critical skill for programmers, positioning the Unix shell as a powerful, flexible alternative to traditional IDEs. It details the author's personal workflow using Vim and multiple terminals, and provides a concrete tutorial on using shell commands and pipelines (like git status, grep, and awk) to efficiently solve a complex problem: restoring hundreds of deleted files in a Git repository.

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#git #workflow #command line