I am learning a bit linux nowadays.so, I thought it would be better to write something related to that.Don't worry , i will not teach you commands here(there are so many sources for that). I was thinking that CLI(command line interface) seems to be boring and cumbersome to use and I know so many people would say the same.Most of us are used to of windows' GUI(graphical user interface).Around 5 months ago my friend bought a laptop and got windows vista as default OS by that company.When i asked him to use linux,he said that as he had been using windows since childhood,he was more comfortable with that.Now i think that how can you compare two things without knowing both. If you also admire GUI then this is for you.CLI has really got some advantages over GUI.lets get it one by one
- with a GUI, only the options provided by the interface are available to the user
- lack of space on a screen can limit the number of options that a GUI displays
- no standard methods exist within GUIs for performing standard command-line tasks, such as linking commands in sequences, redirecting output from one destination to another, or collecting commands into scripts
Shell keeps history of recent commands.its very useful.and, if you have to perform certain operations in sequence then you can create shell scripts also.shell script is just like batch files in windows.
there is one more thing that i have recently come to know.shell is more useful in hardware terms.Shells are much less resources-intensive than GUI's.shell requires less memory.It means that command issued in shell will run more quickly than in GUI.
Only thing that i feel difficult is to remember commands.well,once you get used to it,its much easier than you think.
That's it for today.hope,you got something useful.
