• stilgar [he/him] @infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    There are some massive intrinsic advantages of the CLI though, that apply for everyone, not just leetcoders:

    • The terminal can remember everything you ever did. Forgotten the command you wrote 2 months ago? You can do a search for it with a tool like fzfand run the exact same command again.
    • Communicating with others. GUI programs require step by step instructions, often accompanied by screenshots while CLI may be copy/pasted.
    • Combining programs together. There are a few different techniques for combining CLI programs to search/format output, use secrets without ever having them in the clipboard or on disk, monitor something frequently/constantly etc etc

    So while I agree with you that there’s plently of elitism around the CLI, you do yourself a disservice if you try to avoid it.