I like both the CLI and a nice GUI. Both serve a purpose for me.
For example, Dolphin is quite a good GUI for going through directories and doing some file-management.
Quick, easy and clear.
But when I need to copy files and do some wrangling, I like the CLI.
I’m the opposite when it comes to moving and copying files. I find it much easier to have two tabs or windows on a file explorer open and just do drag and drops rather than having to remember the exact path to somewhere
It depends on the complexity of the operation. “I want to rename all my files to have underscores to spaces”, CLI will let you construct that easily. I want to move all mp4/mkv files to one folder, but all ‘.opus/.mp3’ files to another folder, CLI is a bit quicker. Or I want to take the audio tracks out of all these mp4/mkv and then name the result according to the basename of the original file and move the result, well, mkvextract and mv are quicker than trying to wrangle all the content in comparable GUIs.
But yes, if you are wanting to do an operation on a file or a range of files easily handled with shift-click to select, then GUI will be both approachable and quick.
I like both the CLI and a nice GUI. Both serve a purpose for me. For example, Dolphin is quite a good GUI for going through directories and doing some file-management. Quick, easy and clear. But when I need to copy files and do some wrangling, I like the CLI.
Why not both? ROX Filer allows me to select a number of files and then apply a terminal command to all of them. I think that’s really neat.
I’m the opposite when it comes to moving and copying files. I find it much easier to have two tabs or windows on a file explorer open and just do drag and drops rather than having to remember the exact path to somewhere
It depends on the complexity of the operation. “I want to rename all my files to have underscores to spaces”, CLI will let you construct that easily. I want to move all mp4/mkv files to one folder, but all ‘.opus/.mp3’ files to another folder, CLI is a bit quicker. Or I want to take the audio tracks out of all these mp4/mkv and then name the result according to the basename of the original file and move the result, well, mkvextract and mv are quicker than trying to wrangle all the content in comparable GUIs.
But yes, if you are wanting to do an operation on a file or a range of files easily handled with shift-click to select, then GUI will be both approachable and quick.
Yeah, I generally only use the CLI for moving files if I need root access to the origin or destination folders.
Ah yeah root access in dolphin is always a massive pain