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Ask HN: Best resource for newbie to learn bash and simple dev ops stuff?

1 points by adityarao310 ↗ HN
What is the best place to learn bash profiles & other simple devops concepts? 🧐 I don't wanna become an expert, just working practical knowledge. I am a self learned coder, who is working full time on his SaaS. I have to find time for marketing & sales too, hence for now can't make a full career out of this! :) Just want to remove current roadblocks.

Every time I start a new project, I blindly copy-paste terminal commands. I just took 30 mins of googling to make Python3 the default version in virtualenvwrapper

I did the mistake a few months ago to install zsh shell which again I don't understand at all - it just looks more pretty

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Shared404
I use Linux as a daily driver on desktop, and used it without X for about a week. As a result of doing this, I am equally comfortable in bash as I am in whatever DE I'm using.

The only way to learn is to do it.

adityarao310
Thats true - and I 100% agree. Would you know of any resources to read for a self starter so that they can execute better? I am right now simply googling errors and "how to do x" .. but I feel I am missing out on some obvious core concepts

I am not a software engineer by profession / education

Shared404
What you're doing is what I did. I would say, OK, I need to do this now, look it up, study why it works, and do it. You may find this [0] useful as well, I did read it when I was starting out. The Linux tutorial and scripting tutorials are most related to what you want, but everything here is good.

[0] https://ryanstutorials.net/