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I always thought someday I would become a hardcore Linux hacker and know all the commands and flags but the reality is I have to relearn every time. Who spends that much time just in the command line these days? I’m sure some people do but I don’t know what they do unless its CTFs or security related.

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Devops-style workload means a lot of the time spent in the console.

Even then, I lookup the quoting difference between $* and $@ every single time, and how to use `read`. Or more likely decide it's time to drop bash at that point...

docker save | xz is about the longest pipeline I used, and since compression doesn't provide any meaningful advantage there (except for maybe checksum), I reduced it to just docker save.

> Who spends that much time just in the command line these days?

Just stop using GUI utilities. It really is that simple. If you just don't use them you'll end up in a shell out of necessity because you still need to get things done.

Of course, the majority of my time is spent in my web browser reading documentation followed closely by vim for writing things. Actual time spent interacting with CLIs is a small minority at the end of the day.

I’m not sure why you think CTFs/security has an extra focus on the command line? Most of the security people I know spend their days staring into IDA…

As security person I run stuff in command line as many tools are there and they really are mostly scripts. I don't really need to do much shell magic to do stuff. If I actually need something special I will write a python script.

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