308 saved links with a plot twist: the 2023 layer is classic Linux self-study, but from 2024 on the tag documents the terminal’s second life — the command line as the natural habitat of AI agents. Your Windows day job notwithstanding, the shell is clearly where you think.
Related: Containers & Docker · DevOps · AI Agents · Azure
Linux fundamentals
- the classic Linux HOWTO collection — “linux abc,” per the save.
- The Linux Command Line — the free book · linuxhandbook.com · Linux Journey and the six-site learning list.
- systemd-by-example.com — the init system, hands-on.
- the SRE deep dive into the Linux page cache — where fundamentals meet your profession.
- the Linux Foundation’s free intro courses · Linux in 8 self-paced hours · sysadmin test questions to check yourself.
- Linux Directories Explained in 100 Seconds and the crash course (videos).
- overthewire.org — learn the shell by playing wargames; also ohmygit.org and devops.games.
Command-line craft
- The Book of Secret Knowledge — the legendary collection of CLI tools, one-liners, and hacks.
- command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster — the eternal reminder.
- the tricky tasks: long directory listings and friends · onefetch — git repo info in the terminal.
The agentic terminal
The command line as agent cockpit — the densest modern thread in the tag.
- “Start using Claude Code or Codex CLI — one of the biggest capability jumps you’ll experience” — the thesis.
- why people building real agent systems reach for the command line — simpler beats frameworks.
- Simon Willison’s CLI-LLM lineage: the LLM CLI tool → “Language models on the command-line” — the annotated talk → notes on OpenAI Codex CLI.
- GitHub Copilot CLI: the launch · a DevOps engineer’s practical guide · the cheat sheet site · tracing a single Copilot CLI request end-to-end · the Copilot engine as a programmable SDK.
- Gemini CLI: the launch — Gemini in your terminal, 1M context, open source · research, build, deploy: one journey through the Gemini CLI · Conductor — the standout extension.
- Utilities born agent-first: a Google Calendar CLI that works well with agents · diagrams from text at the command line · Playwright CLI — skill-friendly browser automation · waza — a Go CLI for agent-skill evals · Shell AI — natural language to terminal commands.
- Cursor CLI’s system prompt, leaked and annotated — how the other cockpits are built.
Azure at the command line
- AZD for beginners — the Azure Developer CLI guide and awesome-azd templates.
- az vs. azd — the difference explained · the azd-app extension for local runs.
- azqr — Azure Quick Review, recommendations from one command.
- azure-cli-mcp and talking to Azure via MCP (video) — your cloud, addressable by agents.
- AKS gets an AI sidekick: the agentic CLI deep dive.