Our mission is to save Linux users from their unproductive habits.
In this book, you will learn:
- What's one of the best terminals to use (just a hint: you need that split screen functionality).
- How clipboard managers memorize the things you copy, so you don't have to.
- How to use the greatest/biggest/most intelligent :)) console editor since humankind appeared. Yes, it's Vim. And we'll dive deep into its usefulness.
- Zsh and its awesome
oh-my-zshframework featuring over 200 plugins for developers and productivity seekers. - Extensive lessons on terminal commands: how to find and replace text, parts of text, tiny bits of text or even non-text.
- How to use pipes and subshells to create customized commands that automate day-to-day tasks.
- And much more. This book is for all the programmers that are new to the Linux environment.
But who are we?
Petru: the infamous coder with many years of Linux experience. He types like crazy, loves doughnuts and has Linux wired in his brain! After discovering Linux and switching through a different distribution every week, annoying his girlfriend with tons of geeky stuff, now he annoys everybody with geek talks and the latest news in the tech world.
He spends his time coding frontends, backends, databases, Linux servers, and clouds.
Bogdan: the deserter! He went through more than 20 Linux and Unix distributions including Plan 9, HP-UX and all of the BSDs. But after his girlfriend left him because he spent way too much time in front of the computer he… switched to Mac.
Now he spends his time teaching over ten thousand students in his 8 online courses.
And we are here to help you double your terminal productivity!
If you don't know how to use sed, if you're not that used to pipeing commands, if you use the default terminal and if you are still using BASH then this book is for you.
Read it now and double your terminal productivity!
Chapter 1, Introduction, introduces the most basic tools needed to transform your user experience.
Chapter 2, Productive Shells – Reinvent the Way You Work, reinvents the way you work. Colors, editors, and custom configurations all tailored to your custom needs.
Chapter 3, Vim kung fu, explains the way of the terminal warrior. This includes configuration and advanced usage to cover the majority of needs.
Chapter 4, CLI – The Hidden Recipe, shows different ways of going from good to great and boosting the command-line capabilities to new frontiers.
Chapter 5, Developers' Treasure, explains how to maximize productivity with these simple hacks. It's the small things that produce the big difference.
Chapter 6, Terminal Art, prepares you to become amazed at what creativity can do with limited resources. This is where the fun begins.