> A difference of opinion creates the market palace.

The cathedral (palace) and the bazaar, eh?

If you find yourself uncomfortable in the Linux command-line 
environment, may I suggest that you read a Most Excellent book 
I have found for introducing the reader to the awesome power of 
being only one step (a few keystrokes, actually) from a program-
ming environment,  where one can write programs that do very 
useful things in a very short amount of time:

"The UNIX Programming Environment" by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike.

This book goes all the way from a very basic introduction to the
UNIX operating environment and how it works, to a basic introduction
of the shell, to an in-depth look at how to get very useful things
done with a minimum of work and time spent on it by using the
very powerful programming tools that come built-in to the shell
and the UNIX environment.

A poorly designed GUI is hell, but so is a poorly designed CLI
(COMMAND.COM anyone?).  UNIX benefits from a very well-designed
CLI (the shells), and with a little bit of training and the 
willingness to learn, you can do great things in a CLI that are, 
in some cases, not even possible in a GUI.

If you are interested in learning how the Linux shell CLI works 
and how to use it, I recommend this book.  If you are unable or 
unwilling to learn about it, or just aren't interested, then 
don't waste your $$.  My copy cost me about $30 I think, but it's 
been several years since I bought it.  I believe it is still in 
print.  You should be able to get it from Softpro, Fatbrain, bn.com,
amazon, etc.

> Grant Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > Cyberclops wrote:
> > >
> > > This is one of the reasons why the /cli/suks/imo
> > Actually, this is why the cli is great.

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