rtmistler |
02-06-2015 10:00 AM |
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Originally Posted by flyingmouse77
(Post 5312568)
This is definitely fun for me to play with, but when do you actually use Linux in this way?
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As others have said, you could install and use a desktop distribution and use it much like Windows and never end up entering anything to a command line. I guess another parallel is if you use Windows, you may also never use the command line, but there are rare occasions where that can happen and usually it's either because you were recommended or instructed to do so, or you learned enough about the system to eventually use it for more technical reasons than a casual user.
And then there are cases where you do more with Linux besides use it as a desktop. For instance a server, or maintain systems for others, or write code and scripts. In those cases, you'd find that you'd use the command line very much. Similarly the subtle differences between ">" and ">>" would be important if you wished to do something in a script I prefer, which is to use those to re-direct to a log file and also have the log file be newly created each time the script runs. Some scripts I have are invoked randomly as needed and each time they may be doing a repetitive task, but still unique to the time I'm running it. Therefore the first write to my log file will cause any existing log file to be replaced, and then following writes to the log file will append versus overwrite.
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