On 1/28/06, Sreenadh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have this wierd problem that i am too addicted to GUI. And i find it
> really hard to go CLI. Any suggestion on how i can get started with
> CLI???
I agree with Chris that it's not necessarily a problem to use the GUI
all the time, if it works for you. But there's a lot of things that
the CLI does better. For instance, I can't stand to browse files with
a GUI. If I'm looking for files, or deleting them or moving them or
renaming them or whatever, I have to use the command line.
If you want to look into what you might be missing, try out different
tasks that you usually do with a GUI on the command line. Wanna play
a movie? 'mplayer movie.mpg'.
Keep konsole or gnome-terminal or whatever you have open all the time.
Every once in a while, switch to that window and use it for
something.
Pick some task and force yourself to do it with the command line for,
say, a month. You'll get used to doing it that way, and you'll get
better at doing it that way. Then, when the month is up you can
decide which way (GUI or CLI) you like better. Then you can do it
with some other task for a month.
One thing I find the command line to be very useful for is the
scripts. Sometimes I just want to do some small, trivial, useful
thing, and writing a script to do it makes sense. For example,
address book. I just want a list of names and phone numbers and
addresses. So I keep it all in a text file. I have this little
script I wrote called 'madb'. Wherever I am in the filesystem, I type
'madb' and it runs 'cat /home/todd/info/addressbook.txt'. That way,
when I need to call someone, I just pop open a terminal window, type
'madb' and it's there. Try typing up a simple script that you can use
the command line for. Scripts are as fun and as easy as you want them
to be.
Also, package management is best done on the command line, I think.
Whatever package management tool your distro uses, adopt it as your
learning device and get to know how to use it from the command line.
Read its man page, learn the options it takes, figure out how to
search for packages, how to install them, how to manipulate the way
that they get installed, how to keep up to date, and so on.
Finally, remember that you can always call GUI programs from the
command line. 'gwenview' for me.
-todd
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