Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment order> Learn basic Bash. Actually, type man bash and at least skim the whole thing; it's pretty easy to follow and not that long Skimming The Grapes of Wrath would be shorter. Thank you, but no thank you.
> To disable slow i18n routines and use traditional byte-based sort order, use export LC_ALL=C (in fact, consider putting this in your ~/.bashrc). Do not. Having a non-utf8 locale means you won't be able to handle utf-8 sanely ("that's why it's faster") and it will break at the most inexplicable times. Any non-latin1 character appearing in your prompt or command line with this will mess its spacing up for example. Do not do not do not. Hell I even check…
I say this as someone who has been heavily using the command line for the last decade, even if you "know" how to use a CLI decently well, go read this if you haven't. From only a couple minutes of reading I found not one, but two new tidbits that I never even considered looking up. This information will completely change my daily levels of frustration when using a CLI. Very, very high ROI link.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 1451
- Total comments
- 377
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-15 | The Art of Command LineFirst breakout | zalzal | 466 | 133 |
| 2016-09-29 | The Art of Command Line: Master the command line, in one page | gabamnml | 4 | 0 |
| 2018-01-04 | Short notes on Linux command-line Usage | miketodd | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-05-23 | The Art of Command Line (2015)Best thread | axiomdata316 | 597 | 169 |
| 2021-05-26 | The Art of Command LineHall induction | stikit | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-11-24 | The Art of Command LineLatest 20+ point return | tambourine_man | 375 | 75 |
| 2024-02-19 | The-art-of-command-line: Master the command line, in one page | ulrischa | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-05-06 | The Art of Command Line | udev4096 | 2 | 0 |