• Limeey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    A gui is helpful sometimes, but there’s a lot of cases where there’s no feasible way to make a good gui that does what the terminal can do.

    Right tools for the right job.

    For example, a gui to move a file from one folder to another is nice - drag and drop.

    A gui that finds all files in a directory with a max depth of 2 but excludes logs and runs grep and on matching files extracts the second field of every line in the file? Please just let me write a one liner in bash

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
          0·
          10 months ago

          Eh you rapidly need to know regular expressions to accomplish bulk renaming in the terminal, where some GUI tools like Bulky are a little more powerful for people without chronic eye fatigue.

          • Pantherina@feddit.de
            0·
            10 months ago

            Yeah I have no idea how to do that too. But I would find it soo nice if Distros would ship bash scripts for all that.

            rename EXPRESSION EXPRESSION

            With some help on how to do it and actually helpful tldr. btw:

            cheat(){
curl cheat.sh/$1
}

            Damn Lemmy…

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    0·
    10 months ago

    The main reason Terminals suck is the lack of any guides.

    Imagine a CLI interface without commands, just selecting. That would still work everywhere and be easy to maintain, but it would be easy to use.

    Or just having cheatsheets available

    cheat(){
curl cheat.sh/$1
}

    That makes Terminals useful for everyone