Thanks for the encouragement. Perhaps I just couldn't get over the incident that happened to me ten years ago. Your right, the command line is king. I've saved many users with that, even Windoze ones. ;-)
Les Mikesell wrote:
Actually, executing complicated commands repeatedly is where the
command line wins, especially complicated sequences that no GUI programmer anticipated. All you have to do is type the command sequence into a file, give it a short name and type the short name every time you want to run the script. That is, at the shell level, every command you can run from the keyboard is automatically the same thing you would execute from a file in a script. If there are a few variables between runs, the shell provides adequate methods to accept and substitute them into the script. GUI's on the other hand often have no scripting mechanism at all, so you have to sit and wait and watch for the right time to punch the mouse. And when they do offer scripting each re-invents it with some new bizarre syntax that doesn't interoperate with anything else, while the unix shell has worked the same way for 30 years or so. If you are drawing pictures, a GUI makes sense. To give commands to a program, it doesn't.