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‘Do one thing and do it well’ is the principle of the Unix toolkit. Editing text is a broad domain, and there are many related tasks with which it overlaps. Vim acknowledges this by enabling certain tasks to be outsourced to external programs which do that one thing, and do it well. This episode will demonstrate how the par program can be used for formatting text.

Tim Harper (tim.theenchanter.com) presents a 13 minute tour of some of his favorite bash features that he uses on a daily basis. The font size is tiny, so be sure to watch it in full screen.

by Dan Benjamin, System Developer of A List Apart.Bonus PDF by Casimir Saternos. This screencast is for you if you’ve never used the Unix command line, or are learning it for the first time. (If you have, skip ahead to Advanced Command Line). Navigating a text-based terminal can be intimidating...