{"id":157917,"date":"2013-12-12T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?p=157917"},"modified":"2014-06-10T12:37:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:37:05","slug":"new-poll-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/new-poll-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"New Poll: Command Line Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a feeling the readers of CSS-Tricks represent a fairly wide range of job types and skill levels. It would be interesting to know how frequently used command line usage is amongst the general web worker population.<\/p>\n

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Call it what you will:<\/p>\n

“Shell”
\n“Terminal”
\n“Command Line”<\/p>\n

Or specifics like Bash\/Dash\/Zsh\/Etc. In this poll we’ll just call it the command line for consistency. It’s the thing where you type in text commands and a computer does something.<\/p>\n

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OS X comes with a program called Terminal. But all operating systems have some kind of command line access.<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

I think probably the easiest metric to gather would be how much people use it. So let’s make the question:<\/p>\n

On average, how many commands do you run from the command line each work day?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Vote in the widget on the site itself. I broke the choices down into answers ranging from “not at all” to “pretty much your entire job” – but specifying actual numbers. Feel free to guess, but apparently there is a way to get an accurate count:<\/p>\n

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@chriscoyier<\/a> Quick and dirty way to count: export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d\/%m\/%y %T"; history | grep -c `date "+%d\/%m\/%y"`<\/p>\n

— Brian McAllister (@brianmcallister) December 12, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n