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Re:Do You Understand Job Control in Bash? by jacquesm on Thursday September 02, 2010 @07:40PM (#1658129)
A command line is a poor mans gui.

A gui is a poor mans command line.

Whichever I'm using there are always aspects of the work that you could do better with the other.

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Re:Do You Understand Job Control in Bash? by bingaman on Friday September 03, 2010 @12:14AM (#1658615)
Give me an example of something that you could do better with a gui. Just curious.
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Re:Do You Understand Job Control in Bash? by johkra on Friday September 03, 2010 @04:00AM (#1658925)
Selecting a number of unrelated items from a list. Example: You have a folder with music files and want to select some to copy onto your portable music player. It's easier to click on the items to select them than typing all the names, even with file name completion.
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Re:Do You Understand Job Control in Bash? by jacquesm on Friday September 03, 2010 @05:51AM (#1659046)
- interactively increasing the contrast of an image

- browsing the web (sorry, lynx users)

- play games (not that I'm a gamer)

- desk-top publishing

- routing a PCB

- CAD

and so on...

But then, each of those has moments when you think to yourself 'Man, I wished I could script this' (well, maybe not the games).

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