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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>show me your GUI alternative to ls/grep/convert/mv and how
>much work on your part does it take.
Again, just because current GUI's are bad at something, that's not to say that a GUI *couldn't* implement it.
Personally, I'd love to see GUIs implement something like this, ideally with a graphical mechanism to help people build their selection query. You could even have the GUI provide a list of the selected files as you build your query, so you know exactly what you are going to get.
Regards,
Kram II