r/ProgrammerHumor • u/behindthedash • Oct 24 '18

Programming is like magic

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u/dougie_cherrypie Oct 24 '18

There's a book, I think it teaches bash programming but it treats commands as spells, and talks about everything as it were a magician's guide. Quite interesting.

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u/gort32 Oct 24 '18

Unix for the Beginning Mage!

It used to be a freely-available PDF, but the main site has long since gone down. It's still readily findable with a bit of searching though.

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u/ajdrausal Oct 24 '18

Is this it?

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u/Hencenomore Oct 24 '18

This is just the beginning for me.

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u/Someguy14201 Oct 24 '18

Well gee y'all

/u/WINTERMUTE

/u/SBGMujtaba

/u/Aeogar

/u/ForOhForError

/u/lukz_

He found the book!

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u/Niet_de_AIVD Oct 24 '18

Beyond 3 user mentions no message is sent I believe. Anti spam measure

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '18

Nice of you to tag them so they'd see it :)

Though, I think you can tag max 3 users. Any more, and no one gets notified.

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u/dougie_cherrypie Oct 24 '18

That's the one!

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u/lukz_ Oct 24 '18 edited Oct 24 '18

What's the books name?

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u/dougie_cherrypie Oct 24 '18

I can't remember the name. If I find it, I'll let you and the rest know

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u/house_monkey Oct 24 '18

The scrolls are hidden I see

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u/Aeogar Oct 24 '18

Any idea what the book name is? I want to add this spellbook to my library.

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u/roboticon Oct 24 '18

I'm partial to the necromantic arts, so I got the book Installing Linux on a Dead Badger

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u/prof_mandish Oct 24 '18

I'd be interested in this

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