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Re: The Command Line is Everybody's Friend

  • Subject: Re: The Command Line is Everybody's Friend
  • From: JEDIDIAH <jedi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:31:09 -0500
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Superfeed.net
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On 2006-08-01, NoNamer <grug2005@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Death of the command line
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | It's hard for me to imagine using an OS without a strong command line.
>> | Even Microsoft has recognized the for that with their Monad Shell
>> | (though they are at least temporarily removing that from Vista). Linux
>> | of course has its Bash shell, Mac OS X has Terminal (which now defaults
>> | to Bash) - everybody knows you need a shell.
>> `----
>>
>>                 http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/command_line_death.html
>
> Try PowerShell from microsoft.com
>
> *Way* better than *any* unix/linux shell.  It's OO... you pipe objects
> instead of just text.  It rocks.
>

	It's more accurate to say that it pipes collections of strings
rather then a string of characters. Someone developed an XML variant
on this awhile back. Dunno what ever happened with it though. Didn't 
set the world on fire I guess.

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	is genuinely new: culture, like science and              |||
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	building on the works of those that came before.

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				 US Court of Appeals
				 9th Circuit


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