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How much do you use a terminal?

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  • #32
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,532 ✭✭✭jmcc


    About 95% of my Linux based work would be done from the command line. In some respects, the GUI is a conspiracy to keep people stupid by making sure that they never learn (A primary marketing strategy of Microsoft ;) ).

    Regards...jmcc


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I have to say, I use mostly GUI. I'm just getting into using terminal more but for a lot of my tasks, using GUI is fine.
    My rule of thumb is, if a terminal program takes up the full terminal screen, may as well just use a GUI version.

    Programs that output text - they're the ones I tend to use in the terminal, as they let me pipe and redirect.


  • #34
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,813 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    158 sudo
    63 ls
    54 ping
    34 cd
    16 ifconfig
    15 df
    11 man
    10 ip
    10 cp
    9 rsync
    9 dmesg
    8 mount
    8 ktorrent
    7 rm
    5 tftp
    5 cat
    4 rename
    3 lsusb
    3 gtkpod
    3 bash


    history | grep sudo | awk '{ print $3}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 20

    29 dhclient
    24 cfdisk
    21 mount
    12 rsync
    9 sfdisk
    8 mkfs
    8 apt-get
    7 gedit
    4 mkdosfs
    4 kismet
    3 volname
    3 reboot
    3 gparted
    3 ddrescue
    2 rmdir
    2 mkfs.vfat
    2 cp
    2 chown


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