Shell
Another tool that we will use heavily with this book is the shell. You can do many things through the command line and it can really have an important impact on your productivity as a developer. With modern shells, you can script many operations and automate a lot of the tasks that you perform many times each day.
On Linux and macOS, using Bash is recommended. There might be some minor differences on macOS because it uses FreeBSD-based utilities, while usually on Linux, you'll have the GNU project ones, but nothing relevant for the purposes of this book.
If you're working in Windows, you can use Git BASH. Git BASH is a Bash shell emulation that is provided along with the Git installer on Windows. There are multiple reasons for this ...
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