This thread should be archived and perhaps even Data Mined for the collection of "Sanity Savers" in it.

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 *grimoire*concept. The endorphin rush of getting the Zen inherent in .nix realms is addictive. The *grimoire is that which increases those moments!*

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!

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.

They're arguably a totally Pass or EPIC FAIL level importance. And the "Why?" of it becomes of even more grim import,

Do every task as if you will be that "next person" working the aftermath. As often, you will BE that next person.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Thomas Hastings hastint@slu.edu wrote:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/command-line/ is a great resource, the book is a how-to manual designed as an introduction to the GNU/Linux Command Line and is also available as pdf or in print

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Chris Weiss cweiss@gmail.com wrote:

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the gnu/linux cli is far more rich than dos ever dreamt of being. you will be rewarded!

you can sample this on Windows by installing Cygwin. commands such as grep, find, sed, and awk are useful things to have a familiarity with. You don't need to master any of them, there's plenty of guides and docs to fill in the details once you have the basics.