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To: Alas Babylon!
See my comment #40. I do the same thing, but in a DOS (cmd) window.

And since I have Cygwin installed, I often open a Cygwin Bash session and have both Linux and Windows commands at my fingertips.

I just wish I could use the mouse a bit more in Windows 10, the way I do in Win7 (and in Gnome Linux, for that matter). It’s supposed to be a GUI, after all, not a text UI... :-)

50 posted on 08/01/2018 8:47:18 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored; upchuck

No problem, I wasn’t disagreeing.

Sometimes, though, the GUI is the longer way to do something. It just is.

Look, I love the GUI, since before then it was ALL command line...

I used to have to write batch scripts in VI... When I got my first Sun Sparc 10 running X Windows I about thought I died and went to Heaven!

And both Upchuck and I talked about the good old days of SCO Unix!

Still, there’s a lot of stuff that is actually easier to do in command line and PowerShell, especially with tab completion. Nowadays I much prefer PowerShell over CL.

And... PowerShell for Unix!

https://github.com/powershell/powershell


51 posted on 08/01/2018 9:05:24 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (MAGAMarchOnWashington.com)
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