Had a conversation (well, via email, but that counts, right?) about the importance of command line literacy — things you can do via the command line in Linux that you just can’t do via the GUI — which motivated me to dig up these two pieces: Unix as an element of literacy, and The Elements of Style: Unix as Literature.
Both pieces are slightly dated, but I’d recommend reading both of them. They apply equally well to Linux, of course.
(Mainly, I’m bookmarking the pieces for later reference…)
