CLI tools in Gnome Software?

Chuck Rolke crolke at redhat.com
Mon Jan 5 19:34:19 UTC 2015


> 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 
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