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Trying the Terminal Instead of GUIs
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XDA ☛ I tried using only terminal apps on Linux for a week
Maybe it's because I started my computing journey in the DOS days, but I'm not scared of the Linux Terminal. There are plenty of tricks for making a text-based interface render images, and I can watch YouTube in a Terminal window or control my growing Proxmox empire.
Even on Windows, I still find myself using the Terminal Emulator more than most, using it to update my apps, fix Windows issues, and handle files. The rest of my time is mostly spent in web browser tabs, and those are kind of like Terminal windows. I've often wondered if I could handle my entire workflow from the Terminal and never have to leave the command line, so I decided to give it a go and see how much of my work week could be handled without leaving the bounds of that glowing representation of an old PC Terminal.
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HowTo Geek ☛ You don’t need grep and sed for most Bash scripts, here’s what to use instead
You've probably written dozens of Bash scripts by now. You may have used grep in a conditional statement or sed to transform small blocks of text inline. What if I told you that's incredibly inefficient? Bash provides built-in utilities to handle these cases, but they're infrequently utilized, so let's fix that.
I've done it myself (for years)—using external tools where Bash does the job better. That's not an exaggeration; there are real performance gains, and they're often a best practice. Bash pattern matching is simple and more than suitable most times. I'll cover why grep and sed are slow, what the alternatives are, and how you use them.
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HowTo Geek ☛ Stop opening your browser for these 8 tasks, the terminal does them better [Ed: But mostly assumes people use Windows in 2025]