In defence of the Command Line Interface

[Drenriza]

People that nag about using the cli is difficult, waste of time, old-fashion e.c.t. Is in-experienced users.

That does not know what they are talking about.

[doas777]

I got tired of getting errors when typing 'ls' in windows vdm or powershell, so I just installed the coreutils package for windows....

[standingwave]

I'm in a love/hate relationship with the command line. I've been using computers since the 1970s so I obviously grew up with the command line (CP/M, DOS, etc.) and happily waved goodbye to it in the eighties. Still, in many cases, only a bit of CLI magic can get the job done.

[RiceMonster]

I got tired of getting errors when typing 'ls' in windows vdm or powershell, so I just installed the coreutils package for windows....

ls works in powershell.

[doas777]

ls works in powershell.

yeah thats what i thought last year, and it always worked for me until recently. I think it's because i used to have cygwin installed, or perhaps it's a difference in implementation between vista and win7.

last month however i got my new netbook, installed powershell, and got errors using unix commands, so when I came into work, I tried the same on my win7 dev box, with teh same error. after installing coreutils and adding it to the path however, I'm back to being able to smerge system commands again.
cheers

[fatality_uk]

People that nag about using the cli is difficult, waste of time, old-fashion e.c.t. Is in-experienced users.

That does not know what they are talking about.

So I guess you are posting on this forum from Lynx?

Is in-experienced users

I do find it old fashioned. Guess I'm a super-noob!!!

[98cwitr]

ls works in powershell.

powershell set to default shell now @ work...thanks

[RiceMonster]

yeah thats what i thought last year, and it always worked for me until recently. I think it's because i used to have cygwin installed, or perhaps it's a difference in implementation between vista and win7.

last month however i got my new netbook, installed powershell, and got errors using unix commands, so when I came into work, I tried the same on my win7 dev box, with teh same error. after installing coreutils and adding it to the path however, I'm back to being able to smerge system commands again.
cheers

It might be a vista and 7 difference, because I've only tried it on 7. I don't have cygwin installed, so it's definitely not that.

[nothingspecial]

I don`t know what you`re all arguing about.

The CLI is brilliant.

So are all the gui apps we have.

Use, abuse. modify......

......take what you are given and run with it.

That`s the whole point, isn't it?

[fatality_uk]

I don`t know what you`re all arguing about.

The CLI is brilliant.

So are all the gui apps we have.

Use, abuse. modify......

......take what you are given and run with it.

That`s the whole point, isn't it?

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