Linked by Greg Afinogenov on Wed 3rd Sep 2003 07:19 UTC
It is not fashionable nowadays to speak of the merits of the command line, in an age where things like streaming video and Aqua are an integral part of our daily life. However, I do not think that typed-in commands must necessarily be consigned to the dustbin of computer history. Of course, I am not suggesting that we all drop X and Windows and pretend like we are living in the early eighties. The command line interface still has much to offer us, and many of its benefits simply cannot physically be emulated or even replaced by graphical ones.
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> I'm not saying the CLI is bad, I'm just saying CLI tools
> themselves have limitations in the way they are currently
> implemented (although some of those bugs have hopefully been
> fixed by now, but I'm too scared to check).
Well... I can show you about 117 things which I can do faster in CLI than you can in GUI.
Don't get my wrong.. I like the GUI, but I can't live without a decent shell.
I have notived that I have different usage paterns though. In BeOS I use the GUI Tracker a lot. In Linux I hardly use such an application at all. I guess the reason is the nice clean integrations between the filesystem and the Tracker in BeOS, and the fact that there's more powerful CLI tools on Linux (mostly because I haven't botherered installing them on BeOS).