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I really don't understand his problem. There's times when it makes sense to use a GUI-frontend, e.g. for `git diff`. On the other hand, there's so many times,
by tucosan 15y ago
I really don't understand his problem.
There's times when it makes sense to use a GUI-frontend, e.g. for `git diff`.
On the other hand, there's so many times, where a GUI hinders productivity severely.
E.g. a `find -name "*.foo" -exec mv {} . \;` in a heavily nested directory structure can be huge timesaver. Moving the desired files with a file manager would be so much more cumbersome.
- crazygringo 15y agoThere are certainly things you can only accomplish with the command line, but that's not one of them -- on Windows or Mac, just search for "*.foo", the files show up in a new window, and you drag them. If they're images, you can even produce a slideshow out of them directly.
- cema 15y agoHe did not want a slide show. He wanted the files moved. And why do it by hand when it can be automated? As he said, different tasks, different tools.