🧘‍♂️ Terminal Dojo: Practice

Navigation + awareness

• Jump to recent directories with pushd/popd or a fuzzy finder.
• Preview where a command will act (pwd, ls -la, git status) before running changes.
• Use tab-completion and history search to avoid typos.

Safety guardrails

Rehearse protective aliases and flags until they are automatic.

• Dry run with echo or -n flags before destructive commands.
• Use ripgrep to confirm matches before piping to xargs or sed.
• Practice set -euo pipefail in a scratch script and read the failure output.

Pipelines and previews

Build a habit of seeing output before acting.

1. Search for a string with rg, preview the matches, then redirect them to a file.
2. Pipe the same search into less and into fzf to pick one result.
3. Transform sample text with sed/awk, then rerun with backup files to stay safe.