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Efficient Linux at the CLI (Interview)
Jul 6, 2023 · 1 hr 22 min · 79.8 MB
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This week we’re talking to Daniel J. Barrett, author of Efficient Linux at the Command Line as well as many other books. Daniel has a PhD and has been teaching and writing about Linux for more than 30 years (almost 40!). So we invited Dan to join us on the show to talk about efficient ways to use Linux. He teaches us about combining commands, re-running commands, $CDPATH hacks, and more.
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- 0:00This week on The Changelog
- 0:58Sponsor: Square
- 3:52Start the show!
- 5:56Distro of choice
- 7:39Linux only?
- 8:32There are so many efficiency gains
- 11:41Minimum learning curve
- 14:25Command substitution
- 17:01Process substitution
- 22:22Which
- 25:05$CDPATH
- 29:49Sponsor: Changelog News
- 31:28I can see that biting me
- 32:49Challenge to move to a new machine
- 35:22Bash
- 42:41Explaining homebrew's install command
- 48:41Dan shares a riddle
- 52:24ChatGPT and learning Linux
- 54:10ChatGPT package hallucination
- 56:25There's a batter way
- 1:02:43Emacs
- 1:05:19Directory stack
- 1:10:12I'd watch videos of Dan
- 1:15:02Teaser for future books
- 1:16:30Cold Ice Cream & Hot Kisses
- 1:18:15Where to buy the books
- 1:20:50Up next