“Everything is a file” is what made me start understanding linux few years ago and from there it got easier to use with each new concept.

Still this was really revolutionary to me when I first heard it. Made a bunch of things just click.

  • mumblerfish@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    What do you mean? This

    remoteuser@server$ nc -l -p 4444 > /dev/input/event0
    
    
    localuser@laptop$ cat /dev/input/event0 | nc server 4444
    

    doesn’t work?