1. Introduction

1 Just open the terminal…

2 Why use the terminal

3 Navigating directories

4 Navigation shortcuts

5 Microsoft Windows support

2. Install all the things

1 Running applications

2 brew install fun

3 gem install

4 npm install --global

5 Which is best

3. Tools of the Terminal Trade

1 Connecting programs

2 echo & cat

3 grep searching

4 head tail less

5 sort uniq

4. How (not) to shoot yourself

1 Delete all the things

2 Super user does…sudo

3 Permissions mode & owner

4 Kill kill kill!

5 Health checking

5. Making the shell your own

1 Owning your terminal

2 Fish

3 Themes

4 zsh zed shell

5 zsh plugins z st (and more)

6 Aliases

7 Beyond aliases functions

6. Web development workflow

1 Piping workflow

2 Setting environment values

3 Default environment variable values

4 Terminal editors

5 wget and cURL

6 ngrok for tunnelling

7 json command for data massage

8 awk for splitting output into columns

9 xargs (for when pipes won't do)

10 watch to monitor programs (and tricks)

11 Ponies to brighten up your terminal