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With the soaring popularity of the Linux CLI – with even new users willing to embrace what was once considered the exclusive domain of power users – it’s perhaps time to create a list of rules of the terminal. The next two pages will convince you why the most obvious first rule must be: If it exists, it’s possible to do it from the terminal. No exceptions!

Back in , we discussed , a feed reader for the terminal. As wonderful as that project is, you occasionally need to take a break from news and work and check in with your peers and friends on one of the popular social media services. But can you do that from the confines of a terminal, so

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