• 1% I just started
• 6% 1-3 years
• 28% 4-10 years
• 31% 11-20 years
• 34% 21+ years

• 16% Under 25
• 60% 25-44
• 22% 45-60
• 2% 61+

• 71% bash
• 62% zsh
• 19% fish
• 8% Other

• 46% Yes
• 53% No, I changed it
• 1% I don't know

• 66% Mac OS
• 80% Linux
• 33% Windows (via WSL, PuTTY, etc)
• 3% Other

• 2% I don't know
• 27% GNOME Terminal (Linux)
• 5% Terminator (Linux)
• 13% konsole (Linux)
• 9% xterm/rxvt (Linux)
• 23% Terminal.app (the default on Mac)
• 31% iTerm (Mac)
• 12% PuTTY (Windows)
• 25% Windows Terminal (Windows)
• 51% Other

• 53% Yes, very comfortably
• 27% Yes, somewhat comfortably
• 18% Only if I absolutely have to
• 2% No

• 78% vim/neovim/vi
• 8% emacs
• 25% nano/pico
• 4% micro
• 2% I never use terminal-based editors
• 7% Other

• 15% Not at all
• 29% Yes, minimally (for example changing the background color)
• 55% Yes, I use a theme
• 2% Other

• 34% Run `reset`
• 7% Run `stty sane`
• 56% Close the terminal window
• 13% What?
• 12% Other

• 93% PATH
• 88% environment variables (other than PATH)
• 85% aliases
• 73% the prompt
• 50% history settings (size etc)
• 33% shell options (set/shopt)
• 43% integrations with other programs (atuin, asdf, direnv, etc)
• 48% custom functions
• 4% Other

• 21% Yes, every day
• 19% Yes, at least once a month
• 28% Yes, very rarely
• 20% No
• 11% I don't know what that is

• 57% Yes, definitely
• 33% Yes, sort of
• 9% Definitely not

• 20% Terminal, almost exclusively
• 37% Mostly terminal
• 37% Mostly GUI file manager
• 5% GUI, almost exclusively

• 68% Very confident
• 22% Somewhat confident
• 5% It's scary
• 1% I don't know what "PATH" means
• 4% Other

• 77% Very comfortable
• 17% Somewhat comfortable
• 10% I have to look it up
• 1% It's scary
• 1% I don't know how to do that
• 1% Other

• 41% Yes
• 38% Sort of
• 20% No idea

• 98% PATH
• 12% DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
• 39% LD_LIBRARY_PATH
• 29% LD_PRELOAD
• 13% MANPATH
• 73% EDITOR
• 26% VISUAL
• 29% LS_COLORS
• 8% COLUMNS
• 34% LANG
• 29% LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, etc
• 19% SSH_AUTH_SOCK
• 30% PAGER
• 7% Other

• 12% Yes
• 13% Sometimes
• 54% No
• 20% No, and I don't know what that is
• 1% Other

• 98% Ctrl-C (quit)
• 60% Ctrl-Z (suspend)
• 62% Ctrl-R (search history)
• 44% Ctrl-L (clear screen)
• 62% Ctrl-D (EOF)
• 50% Ctrl-A (beginning of line)
• 48% Ctrl-E (end of line)
• 31% Ctrl-W (delete word)
• 10% Ctrl-H (backspace)
• 8% Ctrl-S (pause)
• 9% Ctrl-Q (unpause)
• 18% Ctrl-U (delete line)
• 18% Ctrl-K (delete forward)
• 20% Ctrl-Y (paste)
• 45% Ctrl-left/right arrow (forward/back a word)
• 4% Ctrl-T (SIGINFO)
• 7% Ctrl-\ (SIGQUIT)
• 7% Other

• 71% No, never
• 14% Yes, every day
• 6% Yes, more than once a month
• 9% Yes, less than once a month

• 16% I don't
• 7% I don't know what "less" is
• 62% "/" to search
• 51% "n" / "N" for next/prev match
• 43% "G" to go to end
• 39% "g" to go to beginning
• 33% scroll with my mouse's scroll wheel
• 36% "j" / "k" to scroll
• 39% PageDown/PageUp or Home/End
• 44% "space" to scroll
• 9% Other

• 88% cmd > file.txt
• 39% cmd 2> file.txt
• 68% cmd >> file.txt
• 47% cmd > file.txt 2>&1
• 80% cmd1 | cmd2
• 47% echo blah | sudo tee file.txt
• 7% cmd1 |& cmd2
• 17% cmd1 &> file.txt
• 42% cmd < file.txt (NOTE: I added this option late so it's underrepresented)
• 5% Other

• 94% Changing file permissions (chmod/chown)
• 96% Installing command line programs
• 96% Editing config files
• 69% Doing batch operations ("convert all PNGs in this folder to JPG")
• 81% Setting up SSH keys
• 87% Killing misbehaving processes
• 76% Configuring your shell
• 57% Changing your command prompt (PS1)
• 87% Using pipes to chain commands together
• 89% Redirecting program output to a file
• 78% Reading and filtering log files

• 16% What's job control?
• 43% I rarely or never use job control
• 28% Use Ctrl-Z in my text editor to quickly switch back to my terminal
• 31% Run long commands in background with & and check on them with "jobs"
• 33% Use Ctrl-Z/bg to background commands that unexpectedly take the foreground (for example a GUI tool)
• 16% Switch between multiple running programs with "fg %1", "fg %2", etc
• 17% Use "disown" to keep processes running after terminal closes

• 4% What are pipes?
• 53% "tee" to save output
• 18% "pv" to see progress
• 11% "parallel" to parallelize
• 54% "xargs" to parallelize
• 4% "ts" to add timestamps
• 2% "unbuffer" to force line buffering
• 3% "stdbuf" to control buffering
• 27% None

• 61% Ctrl-R
• 73% Up arrow
• 23% Scroll up in my terminal
• 16% fish's autosuggestions
• 45% history | grep
• 23% Custom search tool (fzf, atuin, etc)
• 14% Run "history" then "!233" to refer to an entry
• 32% Bang commands (!$, !!, etc)
• 9% Don't search, just type again
• 7% Other

• 17% Yes, I know why
• 16% Yes, I know why, and I know how to fix it
• 44% I kind of know
• 23% No idea

• 48% Yes, always
• 49% Yes, but sometimes it goes wrong
• 2% Almost never
• 1% Other

• 55% No, never
• 40% Yes, but it's easy to quit
• 4% Yes, and I always have to look up how to get out
• 1% Yes, and I have no idea what to do
• 0% What's vim?

• 36% No
• 6% What's that?
• 48% tmux
• 24% screen
• 5% zellij
• 4% Other