Rock the Command Line

21 Bash commands to save you time

Jeff Hale
Towards Data Science
10 min readMar 12, 2019

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This article is a gentle introduction to Bash commands. Knowing how to move around the command line is an essential skill to save you time. We’ll hit 21 of the most common commands and their key flags. We’ll also cover Bash shortcuts to save you lots of keystrokes. ⌨️

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