Posted on 01/28/2019 5:06:01 AM PST by ShadowAce
It's not required (much) anymore.
I just knew legalization was a bad idea. I think we should all put down the pipe.
Thank you for putting in the disclaimer, Because this even scared me. Way over my pay grade and capabilities. I won’t be piping my cats anywhere. lol
LOL! Ya think??
You and me and about a dozen others still alive - everyone else is GUI-bound.
Dumb article that misses the whole point of the “Unix way”, which IS to stitch various simple commands together to accomplish a task
...
# vi hellfrworld.sh
vi> echo "Hello Freeper World."
vi> exit(0)
vi> :wq
# make hellofrworld
make> cp hellofrworld.sh hellofrworld
make> chmod +x hellofrworld
#
#./hellofrworld
Hello Freeper World.
#
If used the bourne, korn, csh, tcsh, wksh, and of courcs bash.
The ultimate shell however is the emacs editor.
The command line rules!
The command line language itself is a powerful programming tool and is frequently use used to automate administrative tasks and failrly complex programs and is frequently the glue invoked behind the scenes of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that i merely passed the parameters that were selected on the GUI.
When I was a grad student most MS thesis were on the design of Graphical User Interfaces from someone getting their MS CSA with a Human Computer Interaction concentration.
We affectionately called GUI's the idiot interface back in the day!
antediluvian - of course!
But I degress!
While the "Unix way" is to stitch various command together to get a job done, as you say, there can be more efficient ways of writing those commands.
No point in chaining commands together when one command will do the whole job.
That's a pity.
If I could spell and type at the same time I’d rule the world!
I also hate cats! Sorry viking kitty. I just do. Almost as much as I hate Democrats. (LOL)
I see what you did there.
Yup. I frequently write script-writing scripts, with enough intelligence in them to parse out information from the input file so that it can do many different things on a per-server basis.
With scripts, I can verify SAN connections, check and reset SNMP, perform multiple-password logins, configure network bonding/teaming, make configuration changes across 1500+ servers in less time than most people can do 10 servers, check ssh connections to any number of servers, and, of course, perform our monthly scheduled updates on all of our servers, determing whether or not to reboot them afterwards, and to notify the application owner of the update/reboot beforehand.
With scripts, I have singlehandedly lowered the effort of our team from a month-long task to something a single person can do in less than haf an hour.
I love the command line.
Or Democats, for that matter...
One thing cool about it though, at least with Linux you can do anything you want to do with it if you like.
I pity those that are unaware of the command line powers, particularly for bypassing recalcitrant GUI functions that don’t do what they are supposed to do.
I don’t have my photos on a server so that I can’t post one here but my response would be a military K-9 dog with really wide open mouth with exposed death, growling and salivating and barking with a caption that says, “Go ahead and run! He likes fast food!”
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