This thread should be archived and perhaps even Data Mined for the collection of "Sanity Savers" in it.<br><br>If challenged to list a single point? I'd have to make it a tie for two. The two being reference to those "endorphin moments" and the <span class="st"><em>grimoire</em></span> concept. The endorphin rush of getting the Zen inherent in .nix realms is addictive. The <span class="st"><em>grimoire is that which increases those moments!</em></span><br>
<br>I spent an inordinate time trying to retrocreate the missing site documentation/manuals for a recent contract. A contract that would have been effortless joy to have worked. Had only my predecessor kept a "site grimoire" chained to the server rack! <br>
<br>The comments about meaningful names and comment are not of mere pain/joy importance for all the code we write or systems we set up, Those concepts are beyond mere ease of situation to the "next person" working something. <br>
<br> They're arguably a totally Pass or EPIC FAIL level importance. And the "Why?" of it becomes of even more grim import, <br><br>Do every task as if you will be that "next person" working the aftermath. As often, you will BE that next person.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Thomas Hastings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hastint@slu.edu">hastint@slu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/command-line/" target="_blank">http://en.flossmanuals.net/command-line/</a> is a great resource,<div>the book is a how-to manual designed as an introduction to the</div><div>GNU/Linux Command Line and is also available as pdf or in print<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Chris Weiss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cweiss@gmail.com" target="_blank">cweiss@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
the gnu/linux cli is far more rich than dos ever dreamt of being. you<br>
will be rewarded!<br>
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you can sample this on Windows by installing Cygwin. commands such as<br>
grep, find, sed, and awk are useful things to have a familiarity with.<br>
You don't need to master any of them, there's plenty of guides and<br>
docs to fill in the details once you have the basics.<br><br></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>