Duplicate files

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Wed Apr 1 13:37:00 UTC 2009


Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Sorry! I bear the blame..
> 
> I would!

There was a wink there...

> Especially for users that have no clue how to handle the textual output 
> flood of the commandline tool.

I would consider this (pager, basic grep, etc.) a introductory lesson

How hard is that?  GUIs can overwhelm you too.

> So CL might be better, but when it will 
> not help?

No, obviously not.  But in practice I think on a mailing list it's
easier to teach someone  how to use a CLI then a GUI.  "Click that
bluish folder" is a lot more error-prone than "Type:

foo execBlue /

Matt




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