Hello!
I am pleased to announce a new version of my CLI text processing with GNU Coreutils ebook. This ebook will help you learn 20+ specialized text processing commands provided by the coreutils package.
This book heavily leans on examples to present features one by one. Exercises at the end of chapters will help you practice what you've learned and solutions are also provided for reference. External links are provided for further reading.
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I would highly appreciate it if you'd let me know how you felt about this book. It could be anything from a simple thank you, pointing out a typo, mistakes in code snippets, which aspects of the book worked for you (or didn't!) and so on. Reader feedback is essential and especially so for self-published authors.
Happy learning :)
As per the manual, "Mappings are set up to work like most click-and-type editors" - which is best suited with GUI Vim.
While Vim doesn't make sense to use without the modes, there are plugins like https://github.com/tombh/novim-mode!
I had to learn Linux CLI tools, Vim and Perl at my very first job. Have a soft spot for Perl, despite not using it much these days other than occasional one-liners (mainly for advanced regex features).
Bobiverse by Dennis E. Taylor is a fun and easy read
See also: https://github.com/pllk/cphb (Competitive Programmer's Handbook)
+1 for Cradle already mentioned. I'd add
Check out https://github.com/auctors/free-lunch (list of free Windows software)
See also https://www.nirsoft.net/ (freeware, not open source)
I've read his Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy. Epic dark fantasy, great characters and worldbuilding. The plot is good too, but the pacing goes off rail sometimes.
If you don't mind sci-fi: Red Rising by Pierce Brown
And there's the classic The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
I mostly read on Kindle Unlimited. A lot of the progression fantasy and cozy fantasy books are on KU (my current favorite subgenres), so there's no shortage of books to read. In addition, there's plenty of self-pub fantasy and sci-fi books (there are two competitions: SPFBO and SPSFC which help in finding good ones to read).
Was going to suggest Cradle as well!
I'd add Mage Errant by John Bierce - magical academy, 4 member student group who trust each other, competent teachers, amazing worldbuilding, big battles (in later books), etc.
There was a discussion thread few days back for books that combine sci-fi and magic: https://programming.dev/post/276456
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