I know we all enjoy being nerds and using commands (H4ckerman). But now that everything is either a gui or web based, is there really any use to terminal commands?
For example, on windows I never used powershell or cmd hardly ever. I realize now I probably could have. But Linux just drives me to use it more, which i like anyway (because let’s be honest, it makes us feel superior)
Used the terminal yesterday to search my
piracydrive full of movies and shit in a directory structure, find any duplicate files by size/md5, and then it piped the results into my terminal editor of choice where I commented out the lines corresponding to files to delete, then it deleted them for me. Saved a couple hundred gb, and idk how to do it through a gui (besides the insurmountable task of clicking through all those folders.)Not only that, but turned out I had a bunch of dups in my image folder too that I wasn’t prepared to deal with right then, so in vim I just :/folder and n n n n repeatedly to get to the next relevant entries, made it even faster.
Took maybe 5min (not counting wait time, I ran it, made dinner, and came back and it was ready for me.)
Now, I’m going to peek at that forgotten picture folder in the GUI because I have NO idea what’s going on there and it’ll be helpful for me to get eyes on it instead of reading filenames, so I do use that too, for me it isn’t all or nothing, it’s both, some things are just better CLI and some are actually better GUI, and some can be either depending on how I feel today.