The question I have for Dr. Cook is, "What is this wizardry worth in today's world of computing?" It seems for every concise one-liner that requires no interne

The question I have for Dr. Cook is, "What is this wizardry worth in today's world of computing?" It seems for every concise one-liner that requires no internet access there is a complimentary website someone has set up to perform this same task "for free" on a remote computer and return the results in a web page. I never use those because I still enjoy the command line. People who design software and websites today, and those who review their work in the media, often refer to the command line as some sort of purgatory. God help the user who is faced with a command prompt. For me, this is more like a haven from the world of gratuitously graphical software and web applications that are too often either bloated, overly complex, inflexible, opaque, slow, or some combination thereof. It is not that the command line is pleasing in an absolute sense. It is only pleasing in a relative sense, when contrasted with the alternatives. If the alternatives are painful enough, then moving to a command prompt is a relief.