Most of the time, no, it's not possible, since said GUI programs do not call the command-line programs. Instead, they use the same system calls the command-lin

Most of the time, no, it's not possible, since said GUI programs do not call the command-line programs. Instead, they use the same system calls the command-line tools do: stuff provided by the C library. When you right click and say "make shortcut", it calls the link(2) function deep down, just like 'ln' does. It doesn't call the 'ln' program at all. The best way to learn the command line is to start using it, and looking at various shell scripts, in my opinion.