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50: What's so special about the command line?
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What is a CLI, and what is a GUI? What are the key differences? And why would you choose one over the other? Are there tasks that cannot be accomplished in the command line?
The command line has a steep perceived learning curve, so is it worth the time-investment to learn properly? And is there any benefit to switching to a non-standard shell or terminal application? What are "bash" and "zsh"? Find out all this and more in this week's favorable instalment of A Question of Code.
## Mentioned in this episode:
- hackertyper.net
- Terminal emulators
- Episode #35: What is version control? (GIT)
- SourceTree
- z-shell ("zsh")
- iTerm2
- Lynx: a command-line web browser
96 episodes
Manage episode 253743911 series 2508938
What is a CLI, and what is a GUI? What are the key differences? And why would you choose one over the other? Are there tasks that cannot be accomplished in the command line?
The command line has a steep perceived learning curve, so is it worth the time-investment to learn properly? And is there any benefit to switching to a non-standard shell or terminal application? What are "bash" and "zsh"? Find out all this and more in this week's favorable instalment of A Question of Code.
## Mentioned in this episode:
- hackertyper.net
- Terminal emulators
- Episode #35: What is version control? (GIT)
- SourceTree
- z-shell ("zsh")
- iTerm2
- Lynx: a command-line web browser
96 episodes
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