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    [–] mvirts@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Omg I tell people at least 3 times a day about bash's tab completion. Cli proficiency should be taught before programming

    [–] joshron@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

    Mindlessly mashing tab > copy paste any day brother

    [–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Thank you, whenever people ask me how to start learning and get rolling in tech related things I’ve struggled trying to articulate this exact point. I’m not a sysadmin or anything but knowing how to navigate CLIs across OS’s makes everything so much easier to learn and do

    [–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

    Tab completion is the main way I check that I'm using a valid file path in the command, especially when I'm deleting something. (and even then I double and triple check the path when I delete something lol)