Alan Salmoni wrote:
made a lot easier with a CLI. As I said in another thread, a former lecturer of mine mentioned some research she did way back when which showed sys admins performing more efficiently with a CLI than a GUI.
Speaking as a sysadmin of one sort or another for the past 22 years, that's because only a chump does tasks that the computer could do for you. Why should I manually scan a list of hundreds of processes and click on checkboxes for the ones I want to terminate when I can "simply do" something like this:
sudo ps -ax | grep -i "naughty_program" | awk ' { print $1 } ' | xargs kill -9
One sweet spot these days, IMHO, is package management on linux using apt. There's the power-user CLI interface for people comfy with the shell and there's also a user-friendly GUI interface (synaptic) that is up there with OSX in ease of use.
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