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I read Cuckoo's Egg when I was in 6th grade. It didn't immediately turn me into a CLI junkie (we likely didn't have a computer with a terminal until upgrading to Mac OS X a year or two later anyway), but I do credit it for not being scared to open up the terminal to kill parental controls a couple years later.

The early experience with the command line in turn made me much better at using it when I started working - new people at my company often struggle with the basics and take much longer to get comfortable with it than I did (the vim learning curve is steep indeed...). Now I prefer doing all my day-to-day computer stuff in the command line.

A more tenuous connection, but it's possible Cuckoo's Egg seeded in me the drive to spend unreasonable amounts of time tracking down root causes of issues and figuring out how things work. But that didn't really manifest until I started working.