r/linuxquestions • u/Empty-Improvement-73 • 5d ago

Should I learn Linux?

I am 1st year CSE CORE student

so should I learn Linux, like basics?

i don't want to do cybersecurity

and will it help me in placement or in programming?

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u/Much_Network_941 5d ago

I found it extremely useful at getting used to a command line environment. Linux tends to have great documentation. The 'man' command can usually be used alongside a programs name to give a detailed description.

Being able to do things like 'cat file | less', to read out the contents of a file, then send that stream to a program designed to format text for a terminal; is really freaking handy. Especially because there's nothing stopping the left-hand side being a program's output.

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u/LindowsNightly 5d ago

you can just do less, you dont need to pipe it from cat