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Also worth noting is
that whilst you most of the time will

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Claude by running Claude
and then using this interactive

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shell, whilst you will do
that most of the time, you can also

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invoke Claude Code by typing Claude
and then not hitting Enter right away.

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But instead, you can then put your prompt,
your initial prompt

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right after Claude. So if I know
that I want to use Claude

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to explain this project, I can run it

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like this and it will then still enter
this mode you already know, but it

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will start with this prompt
and start generating the answer right

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away,
which can simply save you some time

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do. Here,
it's then asking me again for permission,

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to explore the project and understand it,
read some

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files, and understand which files exist,
and then it

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outputs its response,
which also shows us

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Claude Code to change code,
but also just to explore code or

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ask questions about a code. And that
is really important, an important

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takeaway. Claude Code, of course,
is primarily used to edit code multiple

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files in one session.
It can do very powerful things as you'll

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you are not limited to that.
You can also use it to ask questions or

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discuss potential solutions with it.

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Now if you wanted to ask this question
without then

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being stuck in the CLI mode,
you could run this same command

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with the -p flag added. And this will then

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still run Claude Code but kind of in the

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background without opening that CLI.

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It will still do everything behind the
scenes, and then it will just come back

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with the response and output that here.
So here we go.

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That's now the response I get here in my
terminal.

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Last but not least,
also pretty important to know I'd say,

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some session and then your editor crashed
or you accidentally closed

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Claude Code or you just need to go back to
an older session.

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You can do that inside of Claude Code with
help of the resume command.

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This then allows you to browse the
different sessions you started

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to any old session like this one here wh-
where we changed the first

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file and continue there with all the
context that belonged to

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the session, which is super useful.

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Or if you know that you just want to
continue the last session you

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interacted with,
you can just start Claude Code with the -c

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command and that will then also start it
with that last session you worked

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on, which in this case
is the last explanation session here in my

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And that's therefore the base usage.

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Obviously,
there's so much more you can do,

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will dive much deeper into all the more
advanced features and then

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also continue working on this project here
for real, but of course, it's

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important to have a general understanding
of how to use the tool and

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configure the tool, and you have that now