What I meant was GUI IDEs such as Eclipse and Netbeans instead of vim and emacs.
And for the kicker, see attachment :-) Dave. On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 21:46, Oron Peled <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, 7 בFebruary 2009, Dave Roi wrote: > > Every single task a Linux user (user, not administrator) or even a > > programmer will ever want to do, he can do it using GUI alone. > --^^^^^^^^^^ What? > Let's start with iteration. Just inform us when your mouse > gets dizzy from going in circles... > > > for i in `cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd` > do > if ! echo "Linux party in 5 minutes" | write "$i" 2>/dev/null > then > echo "You missed a great Linux event" | mail "$i" > fi > done > > If that's hard, let's take something simpler -- try to achieve > what pipes are doing with a GUI -- here is a starter for you: > > ps -ef | cut -c53- | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n > > (the result is left as an exercise to the reader). > > This doesn't mean there aren't tasks that are easier with a GUI. > As a generalization, GUI is simpler for rarely used tasks (because > it guides you), while command-line rules for repetitive tasks. > > -- > Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 > [email protected] > http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron<http://www.actcom.co.il/%7Eoron> > First we take Manhattan , then we take Berlin...(Leonard Cohen). > Linux and Open Source - The Revolution of Choice > >
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