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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> While in Windows Explorer, it's ctrl+click the files
> you want, ctrl+c, then to the destination folder and ctrl+v.
well, the CLI version of this is better with patterns, when you can grep for a certain pattern in the filenames or something, so it's not that good.
But if you want to do something other than cut'n'paste with the files, that's when you'll notice how the CLI is superiour;
say you want to convert all the files that match /blah*.gif/ and /pic(d+).gif/ into .jpg files and move them to the ~/pics/ folder.
show me your GUI alternative to ls/grep/convert/mv and how much work on your part does it take.