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)

  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    Pipes etc.

    A GUI can’t combine commands from several different programs and move data to and from and use that with the ease and explicit nature of a terminal.

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      11 hours ago

      GUIs can use pipes just fine. You tell it to write to a named pipe or similar device and the program on the other end will happily consume it.