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Is there any point in just learning to use a tool without making something with it? You won’t learn to use a saw until you build something with it.

Learn to program and you will be required to learn how to use the terminal.



There certainly is. I've been using Linux/Mac terminal off and on for a couple of decades and have never "built" anything with it. Certainly no programming or even shell scripting leaves out some of the usefulness of the command line, but knowing the commands to get individual tasks done is very useful.


I think my point still stands. You didn’t just learn it. You learned how to do things with it.




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