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I think that most people who need ls's functionality (listing files in a directory) use a GUI application.
by tmtvl 3y ago
I think that most people who need ls's functionality (listing files in a directory) use a GUI application.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoDepends on how you define "functionality". You could say that ls's functionality is "providing a text listing of files in a directory. You can't get that from a GUI, certainly not without extra steps. Why would anyone care about that difference? If I'm reading the listing, I don't care. My eyeballs don't care if the photons came from a GUI or text in a shell. But if I'm trying to pipe the results to another program, then I care. GUIs don't pipe well. And people like me pipe the results of ls all the time.