Dave Kerr

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In Chapter 8 - The Power of Readline: It lists the Node.js REPL as an example of a program that uses GNU Readline, but Node actually uses it's own JS...

Need to make it clear in the intro, front cover and back cover that this is for both Bash and ZSH (as ZSH is the default on MacOS and I...

On zsh systems the history file might be smaller. Replace `~/.bash_history` with `$HISTFILE` > Let's break this down. First, we use the -E flag to tell grep to use Extended...

The print edition will contain boxes as callouts. It would be good to have a semantic representation of this in the raw markdown content. Hugo Book uses 'Hints': https://themes.gohugo.io//theme/hugo-book/docs/shortcodes/hints/ These...

For work with `grep`, `awk`, `tr` and so on, it would be useful to have some larger and more complex text files. We want files to demo: 1. Things like...

enhancement

Would be cool to be able to: ``` curl effective-shell.sh/playground | bash ``` To get the samples! For the book, we should also decide definitively where the sample or playground...

Could be interesting to look into Shopify/[Printify](https://www.printful.com/) as an option to sell physical prints of the shell 'fly on the command line' poster or other reference posters.

This is not the most pressing thing in the world, but is a little annoying. I would like to have clean addresses when the structure is complete, just makes it...

Would be so cool to be able to `curl effective.sh` to read the book in the shell 😄

A little thing - would be nice to make the copyright text smaller and maybe show the current git sha at the bottom of the page (to debug if the...