Love that Commandline!
2003-01-04 � 2:00 p.m.

//rant mode on

One of the many reasons Windows sucks and *nix is cool:

In a *nix operating system (i.e., most of the traditional Unices, BSDs, gnu/linuxes, etc.), everything in the file system can be manipulated as a file. Everything is a file, even the command line and whatever the results of the command line is.

This is cool because, to take a completely random example that has nothing to do with me at all, at all, at all, if you had, say, a directory full of files like maybe, oh, a series of HTML pages that were all inter-linked and you wanted to port that information into something else, you could easily just do a listing of the directory and dump that information into another file. Bang, three seconds tops for a bunch of files (say fifty or more).

Even better, you can perform operations on that information as it passes through your "fingers." Need those names sorted? Re-formatted a certain way? Are those names going to be part of another string of information? No problem. Heck, you could do enough "on the fly" editing of that information in about ten seconds that you could probably dump it directly into whatever it was you were working on to begin with.

But in Windows? Nope.

You want that stuff, you gotta type it out, all fifty or more filenames. Or, at least, that's going to be the fastest way to get at it. There are ways to do sort of similar things in Windows...but they're not installed by default, they're not easily accessible tools that are part of the operating system.

And that's one of the reasons why *nix is cooler than Windows.

And boy do I wish I was working in a *nix right now.

//rant mode off

-t

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