“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.

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    2 hours ago

    Hell, Bash provides filesystem-based sockets in /dev/tcp, so a tcp connection can almost be like Unix sockets or anything else.

    I always found it weird that it was specifically provided by Bash…