Why Everyone Should Learn Shell
May 12, 2024
- The scripting languages are funky
- The tool is always available
- Learning Shell will be the course in operating systems you never had
- Sockets
- Cron jobs
- file systems
- Networking
When majoring in Computer Science at my alma mater, our CS 4410/5410: Operating Systems course was a requirement.
Along with that, I took the practicum course, CS 4411/5411: Practicum in Operating Systems, which lets you implement sections of an operating system in C.
However, between these two courses there was still a missing piece of information: usage. Even through most of us use our operating system everyday (every time we use our computer), understanding and fully utilizing the OS