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You can't 'cd' to a file :-) Seriously, if you have 'work' as a side nav, then you could have it as a symlink, which makes it about the same. But it's really t
by phaemon 11y ago
You can't 'cd' to a file :-)
Seriously, if you have 'work' as a side nav, then you could have it as a symlink, which makes it about the same. But it's really the stuff like looping over operations, or rsync over ssh, etc that make reading & writing a bit more awesome than point & grunt.
- Nadya 11y agoArrgh, you caught me! ;) Replace cd with nano and I'll try to avoid the text editing via GUI vs text editing via CLI debate. As for symlinks, it's a fair point. But even typing the rest of that example it would be faster for me to use a GUI. I agree on that point. CLI is much better for less trivial tasks - or making a trivial task possible. On Windows renaming files is bad, ending with an (n) structure. Where I want "file_1.txt, file_2.txt I get file (1).txt, file (2).txt. Or if I save a bunch of .jpf instead of .jpg I have to use the CLI to fix the extensions because it isn't possible in Windows otherwise. But you won't convince a lot of people to use CLI if you're introducing them to pwd/ls/mv/cp instead of |'s, grep, scripting, etc.
- deathanatos 11y ago> You can't 'cd' to a file :-) I'm routinely tempted to alias `cd` to something that will open the file in $EDITOR, if I type `cd <a path to a file>`.