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Why Use The Command Line?
the computer, he never touches a mouse? It's because movie makers realize that we, as
human beings, instinctively know the only way to really get anything done on a computer
is by typing on a keyboard.
Most computer users today are only familiar with the graphical user interface (GUI) and
have been taught by vendors and pundits that the command line interface (CLI) is a
terrifying thing of the past. This is unfortunate, because a good command line interface is
a marvelously expressive way of communicating with a computer in much the same way
the written word is for human beings. It's been said that “graphical user interfaces make
easy tasks easy, while command line interfaces make difficult tasks possible” and this is
still very true today.
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<span>Why Use The Command Line?
the computer, he never touches a mouse? It's because movie makers realize that we, as
human beings, instinctively know the only way to really get anything done on a computer
is by typing on a keyboard.
Most computer users today are only familiar with the graphical user interface (GUI) and
have been taught by vendors and pundits that the command line interface (CLI) is a
terrifying thing of the past. This is unfortunate, because a good command line interface is
a marvelously expressive way of communicating with a computer in much the same way
the written word is for human beings. It's been said that “graphical user interfaces make
easy tasks easy, while command line interfaces make difficult tasks possible” and this is
still very true today.
Since Linux is modeled after the Unix family of operating systems, it shares the same
rich heritage of command line tools as Unix. Unix came into prominence during the
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