Never learn Bash

I expect the future's hacker will never need to learn the following mainstays of Unix, if they start from childhood on a workflow centred on Emacs' Dired and Eshell.

Some "deprecated" commands:

cd
ls
tee
echo
sort
cut
ln
uniq
pwd
tr
awk / sed
cp / mv
rm / unlink
less / more
cat / tac
visudo / sudoedit
sudo / doas
head / tail
touch
time
chmod (though we're missing -R equivalent in dired)
chown (though we're missing -R equivalent in dired)

The deprecated categories seem to have to do with:

text munging
filesystem navigation
filesystem editing (i.e. renaming, moving, making directories, changing permissions…)
(re-)directing inputs and outputs
?

Examples of commands we wouldn't deprecate (although you'll note many are amenable to a transient.el frontend which improves on them… in fact, it seems to me like you could partly automate the production of such frontends! And with that, I really question the immortality of shells.)

rsync
find / locate (though we'd use affe, helm and such frontends)
grep / ripgrep (though we'd use affe, helm and such frontends)
docker
guix
ip
nft
sysctl

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Created 2022-Oct-18 (2 years ago)