[Haifux] The 10th tip?

[Dave Roi]

What I meant was GUI IDEs such as Eclipse and Netbeans instead of vim and
emacs.

And for the kicker, see attachment :-)

Dave.



On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 21:46, Oron Peled <oron at actcom.co.il> wrote:

> On Saturday, 7 בFebruary 2009, Dave Roi wrote:
> > Every single task a Linux user (user, not administrator) or even a
> > programmer will ever want to do, he can do it using GUI alone.
> --^^^^^^^^^^ What?


> Let's start with iteration. Just inform us when your mouse
> gets dizzy from going in circles...
>
>
>  for i in `cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd`
>  do
>    if ! echo "Linux party in 5 minutes" | write "$i" 2>/dev/null
>    then
>       echo "You missed a great Linux event" | mail "$i"
>    fi
>  done
>
> If that's hard, let's take something simpler -- try to achieve
> what pipes are doing with a GUI -- here is a starter for you:
>
>  ps -ef | cut -c53- | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
>
> (the result is left as an exercise to the reader).
>
> This doesn't mean there aren't tasks that are easier with a GUI.
> As a generalization, GUI is simpler for rarely used tasks (because
> it guides you), while command-line rules for repetitive tasks.
>
> --
> Oron Peled                                 Voice: +972-4-8228492
> oron at actcom.co.il                  http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron<http://www.actcom.co.il/%7Eoron>
> First we take Manhattan , then we take Berlin...(Leonard Cohen).
> Linux and Open Source - The Revolution of Choice
>
>
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