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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Maybe I'm missing something, but I always find navigating through dirs, and copying files to be a real hassle in CLI.
In CLI, instead of natigating through recognition, you have to recall what the folder names are call, with the correct case, various tabs and "ls", before you can get to the dir you want.
When copying, you have to remember the dir structure, how many level up is it, then back down to some other dir, with all the exact spelling. Don't even think about selecting only some of the files in a dir, but not others.
While in Windows Explorer, it's ctrl+click the files you want, ctrl+c, then to the destination folder and ctrl+v. Folder names are done by recognition rather than recalling.
To make it worse, these are operations that you do the most while using a computer.