I think it's a good idea. Are you thinking of it as an educational tool, or something more like a shell script generator from a GUI?
I had a brief look around freshmeat.net and didn't see anything like this. It may be that given the familiarity with the use of the command line by Linux user, such a tool is not needed. Or it may be that nobody thought of it before. I have to say I've seen and worked with plenty of graphical tools to generate process flow and data flow from basic elements, with or without a target or specific language to generate the task in, but all had a specific purpose. Never seen something so close to the operating system as to use command line components. It may be that you have uncovered something here. On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 14:39 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > Knowing a handful of extremely visual thinkers who dread the command > line I have been thinking over the possibility of an application that uses > a drag and drop interface to visually represent the concepts of piping and > redirecting. At the moment I'm just in the day dream stage of development but > I'm happy to start implementing if someone else is. > > Anyway, sorry if this is a considered a spam but I need to some how ask a > largish number of people if I would be wasting my time on if I tried writing > it. >
