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Taking Command of Command Line - 1


Taking Command of Command Line-1

Lets us explore the way we use terminals or a command prompt this series of Blogs will be on the numerous commands which helps you navigate through out your filesystem and OS.

The Power and Perils of GUIs.
 We can’t imagine the world without GUI today from our IDE’s , Browsers,Database Dashboard etc we have everything in GUI today. Whats a deal with it. That makes us easy to use easy to navigate isn't it nope.

Why Command Line?
 There are many reasons that one must know about command line
 These are the top three:1 ability to automate the task.
      2.Counter Productive.
      3.awareness of how system or a language works in ground level.(as a                                                          programmer).

Lets Don’t Be Slaves Of our IDE’s
Let's not be slave of our IDE’s instead lets learn in and out of compiling and playing with a language this makes us more productive when we tend to use of IDE’s for complex projects.(i am not telling you to stop using IDE’s at workplace instead IDE’s are meant to be use in more efficient way as the way we use - it should not the one which predict or vomit the code for us).

Learning to automate
This is magic learning to automate makes you magician real power of command line lies in automating a certain task. You can automate any task write a shell scripts.that make a productive.

Productive
You can leverage the Operating System to the greatest level and be more Productive.

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