All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. Even though the command line seems boring to a lot of people, it can actually become a really fun, it all comes down to your imagination ever heard the fortune cookies? Do you want to get them without getting fat, just run the following apt command to install the utilities that we will be using in this chapter sudo apt install fortune cow say C matrix followed by Fortune. And when running this command, you get fortunes codes and jokes in random order. And if we combine it with cow say, fortune by cow See, we will get the same fortunes delivered by cow drawing. And to make this recurrent we can include as the last line in our essential areas RC file the configuration file, then every time we open a new terminal We know a car will deliver a fortune to us.
Now, this may not be useful, even though it's kind of fun. So let's do some productive wizardry a little better. Let's predict the weather. All you need is a curl command. And you should these Come on. This will show you in a nice format or three day weather forecast for the specified city, in our case, London.
And now with our newly learned skills, let's put together a shell script. That gives us the weather forecast. Open been wt tr and type T these lines. Now we give it execution right now if we run wt tr, we get the weather forecast for London and if we run WTF Paris, we get the weather forecast for Paris. Working in the command line for the first time may seem like the matrix. And if that's the case, why not create this environment?
How do we do it, we type C metrics. And now let your friends be amazed of the complicated stuff you're doing in that cryptic terminal. terminals are not boring. They have beautiful colors, easy to read output, and they display compact information that puts users in control of their own system. terminals can be customized and interacted with, and they increase your productivity by leaving your mouse to sleep, the sleep of inefficiency. Of course, all of these skills don't come overnight, and they require careful tweaking from each user in order to be tailored to one's taste and way of thinking.
But after that they fit like a tailored suit becoming an extension. Your Way of work and sometimes even doing your job. We hope you've enjoyed all the tips and tricks we've provided, and had fun learning them. And remember that education is a continuous process. So don't stop there. Stay hungry and surf the internet to keep track of the latest tools and techniques that will transform you into a productivity beast.