Still there is a ton of things that are trivial with CLI and
surprisingly hard without it. Not all of them are geeky or developy: just the other day, I
was looking at an SD card from my camera; the JPEGS were in a standard DCIM directory, but
the video files were hidden under multiple levels of non-obviously-named directories.
Finding them on Windows was quite frustrating, whereas on Linux it was simply "find .
-size +99999"
The executive summary: I hope there's a way to improve the pretty
graphical interfaces without relegating the CLI to some second-class status.
I agree with the executive summary. But time marches on and it's really hard to keep
up.
It's easy to find large files in Windows from the GUI:
Select your DCIM folder and in the search box type: System.Size:>100kb
It's easy to find large files in Windows from the powershell CLI:
PS> Get-ChildItem s:\dcim -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.Length -gt 100kb}
But my knowing how to do this doesn't translate to your knowing how to do it! The
frustration comes from knowing that it's probably doable somehow but I don't have
time to figure how.
Cheers,
-Chuck