I created a "Bash Shortcuts" quick reference page that you can tape up
somewhere near your monitor. If you force yourself to use the keyboard
shortcuts for things like deleting whole words (alt-backspace), moving
to the begging of the line (ctrl-a), move the end of the line (ctrl-e),
etc you'll be well on your way to being an extremely efficient command
line user.
In fact, if you master all of the shortcuts in my quick reference,
anyone that watches you use the command line will immediately think of
you as a guru =D. I just put the document online for easy download:
http://riskable.com/files/bash_shortcuts.pdf
<http://riskable.com/files/nice_touch.ogv> (share share share!)
I also highly recommend you play around with your .bashrc and
.bash_profile files to see what you can make them do. Experiment! Make
your prompt ($PS1) something ridiculous with 256-color escape sequences
that prints the current stock price of RHAT or something like that.
Anything to challenge yourself. Ask yourself the following question
often: "What would be cool?" and then try to make it happen.
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"Those who choose proprietary software will pay for their decision!"
