This will be my little into to bash for anyone that needs it. It’s broken up into two sections. The first of which is limited to just the basic commands and text manipulation. If you need to learn to use the terminal for a class or for work, this should be all you need to get through it. The second section will deal more with scripting. You may not need to learn it, but it’ll make your life a lot easier, so don’t skip it....
Since I threw out an example of my Vim customizations, I thought I’d take a step back and talk about .bashrc. This is basically just a shell script that gets executed everytime you start a terminal session. It’s not really necessary for your system, but customizing this file goes miles in making your workflow more efficient. Environmental Variables You can use bash to customize your prompt, which is that small string you get before your cursor....
Vim is the editor I always come back to. I’ve tried other IDE’s; however, I tend to always come back to Vim because of it’s super useful from the command line and it’s easy to implement my configs if I need to work on a virtual server. This is just a quick rundown of some of the shortcuts I usually use and what I usually end up changing after a fresh install....