Terminal - Fast, Portable and Flexible

A talk given to junior Software Engineers about the value of the command line.

Transcript

1. Terminal
2. what?
3. Why?
4. quick
5. FLEXIBLE
6. consistent
7. Search and Replace
8. MS word ⇧⌘H
9. ECLIPSE ctrl-f
10. The terminal == LEGO
11. Some bricks
12. echo
13. echo “Alright” > Alright
14. Building
15. echo “Alright” | wc -w > 1
16. echo “Alright” | wc -w > c.txt
17. echo “Alright” | mail {addr}
18. Super glue
19. #!/bin/bash echo “Alright” | mail {addr}
20. #!/bin/bash echo “Alright” | mail {addr}
21. #!/bin/bash echo “Alright” | mail {addr}
22. #!/bin/bash echo “Alright” | mail {addr}
23. #!/bin/bash echo “Alright” | mail {addr}
24. Sharing Commands
25. Portability
26. Machines with MS Word Your machine Your team mate’s machine (hopefully)
27. Machines with BASH application server authentication server database server web server third party server Your machine Your team mate’s machine
28. Good habits
29. UP
30. Tab complete
31. CTRL-R
32. man pages
33. ? @weewrightsite