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But it's all about convenience (teacup.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Terminal has plenty of convenience benefits over GUI as well. For example you can queue up long-running commands to go one after the other, something I didn't realise how useful it was until I was using Linux full time.

I use this one all the time for archiving stuff and moving it from my PC to my file server. Tar archive a folder, generate a checksum, move the new files over to the server, and then delete the original folder:

tar -cvf folder.tar folder && cat folder.tar | sha256sum > folder.tar.sha256 && mv folder.tar folder.tar.sha256 /path/to/remote/file/server/ && rm -rf folder

The && part stops execution if there is any error so the folder is only deleted once everything else is done without issues.

Can't do that with a GUI. Just make sure to proofread before you press enter.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

for this part yes, automated process often better runs on terminal not GUI.

but that terminal is not exclusive to Linux right? and Windows is not always about GUI.

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