Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: terminal only for two weeks Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 01:20:04 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <67447ce1$0$22$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 02:20:04 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="425f1bc2f92518d26bedd7c0acf2719f"; logging-data="1410013"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19HAFcxDDo2hy4oEY+/0EA9HZAWfPuInlIISYj2e330SQ==" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:viTLaTTUPMDXHzrjlu4KCf7PfAg= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA] wrote at 21:52 this Monday (GMT): > On 25 Nov 2024 13:34:25 GMT, Retrograde wrote: > >> This comes down to not knowing most commands by heart, >> and often not even knowing the options and flags for the most basic of >> commands ... > > Don’t need to. Type “man «cmd»” to see all the details of the options > available for any external command. I do this all the time. > >> I’m glad any modern Linux distribution – I use Fedora KDE on all my >> computers – offers both paths for almost anything you could do on your >> computer, and unless I specifically opt to do so, I literally – >> literally literally – never have to touch the command line. > > Also, running a command line through a GUI terminal emulator lets you take > advantage of cut/copy/paste between windows, which is a feature not > available on a pure-command-line system. You can technically emulate that with screen or a similar multiplexer. -- user is generated from /dev/urandom