On 2013-09-14 10:23, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 19:56:14 -0400
"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote:
I guess that it's a matter of perspective. Personally, I find the
Windows/DOS shell to be completely unusable and use git-bash when I'm
forced to use Windows. Windows definitely has some things going for
it (e.g. its graphics engine creams the horror that is X.org IMHO),
but on the whole, I find that Linux is just way better for a power
user like myself. Windows doesn't even come close to cutting it.
While I definitely prefer bash to the windows prompt overall, there are
some places where I think windows makes the linux cmdline look bad.
Like launching a GUI program instead of a CLI:
Windows (nice):
% program-cli file.txt
% program-gui file.txt
Linux (wtf?!):
% program-cli file.txt
% program-gui file.txt >/dev/null 2>%1 &
On Mac OS X I usually use "open" command to open a file in the default
application.
$ open file.txt
Or I can explicitly specify the application:
open -a /Applications/TextEdit.app foo.txt
--
/Jacob Carlborg
