Re: File Manipulation in Linux

ynotssor wrote:
In news:epm0cb0dqo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Joe Cipale <joec@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Back in the day of Sun OS/Solaris, one could use the GUI for
applications but
there was also a way to invoke a command from a command line and pass
the neccesary arguments to launch an application/utility from a shell
prompt.


"There was ..."? Weird.

Hell yeah!

Mentor Graphics 8.0 suite of tools used command-line args to launch (in addition to their big
flashy, crashy GUI). The same was true for Cadence, Spice, Framemaker, not to mention any
application I developed using perl/tcl/tk. GUIs are great, but there are times when the CLI is
better.

Joe
.