This is an unashamed plug for Remy Sharp’s terminal training course command line for non–techies. Go over there and have a look at what he’s lined up for a very affordable price. In a series of videos he explains all the ins and outs of the terminal and its commands that can make you much more effective in your day-to-day job.

I’ve read the ebook of the same course and have to say that I learned quite a few things but – more importantly – remembered a lot I had forgotten. By using the findings over and over a lot has become muscle memory, but it is tough to explain what I am doing. Remy did a great job making the dark command line magic more understandable and less daunting. Here is what the course covers:

Course material

“Just open the terminal”

• Just open the terminal (03:22)
• Why use a terminal? (03:23)
• Navigating directories (07:71)
• Navigation shortcuts (01:06)

Install all the things

• Running applications (05:47)
• brew install fun (07:46)
• gem install (06:32)
• npm install—global (09:44)
• Which is best? (02:13)

Tools of the Terminal Trade

• Connecting programs (08:25)
• echo & cat (01:34)
• grep “searching” (06:22)
• head tail less (10:24)
• sort | uniq (07:58)

How (not) to shoot yourself in the foot

• Delete all the things (07:42)
• Super user does…sudo (07:50)
• Permissions: mode & owner (11:16)
• Kill kill kill! (12:21)
• Health checking (12:54)

Making the shell your own

• Owning your terminal (09:19)
• Fish ~> (10:18)
• Themes (01:51)
• zsh (zed shell) (10:11)
• zsh plugins: z st… (08:26)
• Aliases (05:43)
• Alias++ → functions (08:15)

Furthering your command line

• Piping workflow (08:14)
• Setting environment values (03:04)
• Default environment variable values (01:46)
• Terminal editors (06:41)
• wget and cURL (09:53)
• ngrok for tunnelling (06:38)
• json command for data massage (07:51)
• awk for splitting output into columns (04:11)
• xargs (for when pipes won’t do) (02:15)
• …fun bonus-bonus video (04:13)

I am not getting anything for this, except for making sure that someone as lovely and dedicated as Remy may reach more people with his materials. So, take a peek.