Make the most of your command line

DevOps job posts often ask for automation skills, which is a positive way of asking for someone who’s professionally lazy in a way that results in efficiency. The good news is that developers can also learn a few tricks from the land of ops to make their days easier and their work better.

A terminal is never just a terminal. An elaborate prompt can mean someone digs deeply into optimizing the tools she uses, while the information it contains can give you an idea of what kind of engineering she’s done. What you type into the command line can tell you about environment variables, hidden configs, and OS defaults you never knew about. You can make it speak shorthand only known to your terminal and you. And all of it can help you work more efficiently and effectively.

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