• 0% I just started
• 2% 1-3 years
• 15% 4-10 years
• 31% 11-20 years
• 52% 21+ years

• 5% Under 25
• 55% 25-44
• 36% 45-60
• 5% 61+

• 75% bash
• 50% zsh
• 16% fish
• 12% Other

• 52% Yes
• 46% No, I changed it
• 1% I don't know

• 60% Mac OS
• 85% Linux
• 27% Windows (via WSL, PuTTY, etc)
• 7% Other

• 2% I don't know
• 27% GNOME Terminal (Linux)
• 3% Terminator (Linux)
• 12% konsole (Linux)
• 14% xterm/rxvt (Linux)
• 28% Terminal.app (the default on Mac)
• 25% iTerm (Mac)
• 12% PuTTY (Windows)
• 19% Windows Terminal (Windows)
• 46% Other

• 58% Yes, very comfortably
• 27% Yes, somewhat comfortably
• 13% Only if I absolutely have to
• 2% No

• 76% vim/neovim/vi
• 13% emacs
• 27% nano/pico
• 3% micro
• 1% I never use terminal-based editors
• 8% Other

• 16% Not at all
• 34% Yes, minimally (e.g. changing the background color)
• 47% Yes, I use a theme
• 3% Other

• 44% Run `reset`
• 9% Run `stty sane`
• 49% Close the terminal window
• 13% What?
• 10% Other

• 92% PATH
• 85% environment variables (other than PATH)
• 86% aliases
• 78% the prompt
• 52% history settings (size etc)
• 34% shell options (set/shopt)
• 39% integrations with other programs (atuin, asdf, direnv, etc)
• 47% custom functions
• 5% Other

• 26% Yes, every day
• 23% Yes, at least once a month
• 28% Yes, very rarely
• 16% No
• 8% I don't know what that is

• 66% Yes, definitely
• 29% Yes, sort of
• 5% Definitely not

• 24% Terminal, almost exclusively
• 35% Mostly terminal
• 37% Mostly GUI file manager
• 5% GUI, almost exclusively

• 68% Very confident
• 22% Somewhat confident
• 6% It's scary
• 0% I don't know what "PATH" means
• 4% Other

• 78% Very comfortable
• 17% Somewhat comfortable
• 7% I have to look it up
• 1% It's scary
• 1% I don't know how to do that
• 1% Other

• 42% Yes
• 41% Sort of
• 17% No idea

• 97% PATH
• 11% DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
• 40% LD_LIBRARY_PATH
• 26% LD_PRELOAD
• 18% MANPATH
• 80% EDITOR
• 32% VISUAL
• 31% LS_COLORS
• 7% COLUMNS
• 43% LANG
• 39% LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, etc
• 23% SSH_AUTH_SOCK
• 34% PAGER
• 7% Other

• 12% Yes
• 9% Sometimes
• 56% No
• 22% No, and I don't know what that is
• 1% Other

• 98% Ctrl-C (quit)
• 68% Ctrl-Z (suspend)
• 68% Ctrl-R (search history)
• 51% Ctrl-L (clear screen)
• 71% Ctrl-D (EOF)
• 57% Ctrl-A (beginning of line)
• 55% Ctrl-E (end of line)
• 35% Ctrl-W (delete word)
• 14% Ctrl-H (backspace)
• 17% Ctrl-S (pause)
• 18% Ctrl-Q (unpause)
• 24% Ctrl-U (delete line)
• 28% Ctrl-K (delete forward)
• 22% Ctrl-Y (paste)
• 44% Ctrl-left/right arrow (forward/back a word)
• 5% Ctrl-T (SIGINFO)
• 10% Ctrl-\ (SIGQUIT)
• 8% Other

• 67% No, never
• 17% Yes, every day
• 8% Yes, more than once a month
• 8% Yes, less than once a month

• 11% I don't
• 3% I don't know what "less" is
• 73% "/" to search
• 62% "n" / "N" for next/prev match
• 51% "G" to go to end
• 47% "g" to go to beginning
• 34% scroll with my mouse's scroll wheel
• 36% "j" / "k" to scroll
• 51% PageDown/PageUp or Home/End
• 58% "space" to scroll
• 11% Other

• 93% cmd > file.txt
• 46% cmd 2> file.txt
• 75% cmd >> file.txt
• 59% cmd > file.txt 2>&1
• 87% cmd1 | cmd2
• 52% echo blah | sudo tee file.txt
• 10% cmd1 |& cmd2
• 18% cmd1 &> file.txt
• 28% cmd < file.txt (NOTE: I added this option late so it's underrepresented)
• 6% Other

• 96% Changing file permissions (chmod/chown)
• 96% Installing command line programs
• 96% Editing config files
• 76% Doing batch operations ("convert all PNGs in this folder to JPG")
• 84% Setting up SSH keys
• 90% Killing misbehaving processes
• 76% Configuring your shell
• 63% Changing your command prompt (PS1)
• 91% Using pipes to chain commands together
• 93% Redirecting program output to a file
• 83% Reading and filtering log files

• 11% What's job control?
• 38% I rarely or never use job control
• 35% Use Ctrl-Z in my text editor to quickly switch back to my terminal
• 40% Run long commands in background with & and check on them with "jobs"
• 43% Use Ctrl-Z/bg to background commands that unexpectedly take the foreground (for example a GUI tool)
• 22% Switch between multiple running programs with "fg %1", "fg %2", etc
• 15% Use "disown" to keep processes running after terminal closes

• 2% What are pipes?
• 60% "tee" to save output
• 20% "pv" to see progress
• 11% "parallel" to parallelize
• 60% "xargs" to parallelize
• 6% "ts" to add timestamps
• 3% "unbuffer" to force line buffering
• 3% "stdbuf" to control buffering
• 23% None

• 67% Ctrl-R
• 78% Up arrow
• 26% Scroll up in my terminal
• 14% fish's autosuggestions
• 50% history | grep
• 23% Custom search tool (fzf, atuin, etc)
• 16% Run "history" then "!233" to refer to an entry
• 34% Bang commands (!$, !!, etc)
• 7% Don't search, just type again
• 10% Other

• 18% Yes, I know why
• 13% Yes, I know why, and I know how to fix it
• 47% I kind of know
• 21% No idea

• 47% Yes, always
• 51% Yes, but sometimes it goes wrong
• 1% Almost never
• 1% Other

• 56% No, never
• 39% Yes, but it's easy to quit
• 4% Yes, and I always have to look up how to get out
• 0% Yes, and I have no idea what to do
• 0% What's vim?

• 31% No
• 4% What's that?
• 46% tmux
• 32% screen
• 3% zellij
• 4% Other