On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:02 AM, John Maher <jo...@rotair.com> wrote:
> So there is NOTHING the gui can't do that the command > line can except take more time to do something. What they don't do is let me build on things that already work in arbitrary ways (especially in other languages and on other machines...), and add to that when I have anything else that works. Maybe they could, but then they would become a programming language themselves. > You're confusing the > steps to design an application with the steps to design a wrapper. Two > different animals and if you mix the two its like trying to pull a > trailer with a corvette. It may work, it may cause problems. It > definitely is not optimal. That's fine if you want to buy a new vehicle for everything you transport, never re-using anything you've done or being able to expand on it because you need a self-contained application for every operation. But, I like being able to do something once, then repeat it across a hundred machines with a simple script loop wrapping ssh. Or schedule it to run automatically. Or use some other remote tool to generate some of the options and/or inputs. Each tool does a step optimally and repeatably. Can you really beat what ssh does - or even grep? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com