Hi, everybody Recently, a guy noticed that I was using it and asked why? For me it because in Linux many things are done through the terminal because Linux has many different desktop environments

He also compared terminal commands with cheat codes in GTA and other games, he understands what benefits you take from them, but not from terminal commands

  • pelya@lemmy.world
    123·
    1 year ago

    To get shit done in general.

    If I need to rename a file, yeah, I can do that by right-clicking it in the file explorer, and selecting ‘rename’ from the menu. Two files? Painful but doable. Three files? Oh hell no, I’m switching to my always-open-in-background terminal window, and write a quick c=1; for f in *.jpeg; do mv "$f" $c.jpeg; c=`expr $c \+ 1` ; done and it takes twice less time than clicking things through with mouse.

    And yes, I wrote that shell command off the top of my head on the first try and without edits.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      5·
      1 year ago

      Just so you know, in emacs you can do mass rename of multiple files using dired-mode. Never use a for loop again.

      • pelya@lemmy.world
        31·
        1 year ago

        I’m sorry, I’m too old to learn emacs over my perfect knowledge of Midnight Commander.

        The point of this topic was to tell why we are using terminal, and emacs is kind of terminal on steroids, there are like 1000 key bindings and the mouse is totally optional, you are proving the point even further.