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Unix

The system around the shell.

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  • 01·150 XP
    PATH & Environment
    How the shell finds commands.
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  • 02·150 XP
    Processes & Signals
    What runs, how it's controlled, and how to stop it.
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  • 03·150 XP
    Permissions & Ownership
    Who can read, write, or execute — and why it matters.
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  • 04·150 XP
    Filesystem & Links
    Inodes, hard links, symlinks, and where config lives.
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  • 05·200 XP
    Pipes, I/O & jq
    stdin, stdout, stderr — and the essential JSON knife.
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  • 06·175 XP
    Text Processing
    awk vs sed vs grep — picking the right tool for the line.
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  • 07·175 XP
    Find & Locate
    Walk the live filesystem or query an index — and how to feed xargs safely.
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  • 08·200 XP
    Shell Scripting
    set -euo pipefail, trap, subshells — and when to graduate to Python.
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  • 09·175 XP
    Package Management
    apt, dnf, brew, pacman, nix — and why Nix solved 'works on my machine'.
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