3 Commands that Every Programmer Must Know
Check these numbers.
47% of professional developers use Linux-based operating systems, and 44% use Mac — Source: Statistica
This article will cover 3 commands you need to know as a data scientist or programmer in general. We will not cover the common commands like ls, cd, mkdir, rm, and mv. Instead, we will cover the commands and tools essential to the life of a programmer. You might not have heard some of them.
We will discuss these commands by giving the general syntax and examples of some used cases.
But first, we need to set up our environment…
The commands we will discuss can easily be installed and used in the Bash of Linux and MacOS systems, but it might not be straightforward to run the commands on Windows Terminal or Power Shell.
Windows users can go through https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install to install Bash on Windows using Windows Subsystem for Linux. After the process, you can install the command shown here as if you were on Linux.
Note: We will use the APT package manager in Debian-based Linux systems. Make sure to update the commands used here based on the Linux system you are running or use Homebrew for Mac.
