Introduction to the Command Line by Launch School


Introduction to the Command Line
Title : Introduction to the Command Line
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Format Type : ebook
Number of Pages : 60

This book is a short and beginner friendly introduction to the command line, covering common commands that will make you immediately productive. More importantly, you'll explore the fundamental concepts that make up the thing we call the "command line" and deepen your understanding of how to use any computer.

This book was the result of a collaborative effort from the team at Launch School.

This book wouldn't be possible without contributions from: Dan Rasband.

We can be reached at [email protected].

Introduction to the Command Line Reviews

  • Rebecka

    Pretty clearly written overview of the Command Line, although I must say the Amazon Web Service (AWS) that is recommended is not very easy for a newbie to navigate to set up a virtual machine environment. It was pretty frustrating.
    But I appreciate that Launch School put this book together to give this intro. I'm interested in front-end development so I'm probably not going to be working in the CLI... ever ... but I'm glad they exposed me to it.

  • Luke Carlson

    Accomplishes its purpose very well.

    I had some command line exposure prior to reading the book, but I found it helpful for cementing my knowledge while introducing in greater detail a couple of things I had only passing familiarity with, specifically file/directory permissions and different ways of modifying environment variables. It was especially interesting to discover that CLI commands are launched by searching for matching executables in the directories specified by $PATH if the first character of the input is not a ~, /, or . . The exercises were particularly well thought out, too.

    I would have appreciated material on grep and regular expressions, but what's this? Launch School has another book just on that topic? In that case, I have no complaints.