Why you should love the linux command line.

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Havent you always wished to mirror a whole website with one short command?

http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/10/01/p ... ows-users/

The ssh trick for remote GUI apps is a nice one, since I plan on using ssh copiously to access the Red Hat workstations at my university.

excellent,will try them later.

It's useless as a JTalk replacement,but install espeak,and type:

Another reason to love CL in linux.

espeak is installed by default in ubuntu.

Is that similar to the OSX "say" command? (That's about the only thing the OSX command line can do by default, other than basic things like mv, cp, cd, ls, etc)

I don't think I'm ever going to get a complete list of command-line programs...only up to about 300 so far. Welp, thanks for the site.

I think it's default in all debian based systems. Actually, i never knew about espeak until now . It's pretty much useless for me though

Gosh you newbs, everyone knows that bash is way better!

Anyhoo, wget is nice and all, but I raelly like httrack for mirroring websites since it'll follow links selectively and all that.

I think most terminal emulators default to using the bash shell. I don't think I've run into anything else yet in the terminal programs that come out of the box with most distros.

you have n00b wrote all over you.

You're one of those Arch guys, no?

I learned more concerning command line reading that article than an entire shell scripting class I took last semester...

Listen "Mr. I'm gonna rise from the dead so that I can terrorize the IAU so they kill the dreams of little children everywhere and Pluto as a planet instead of eating Colin Matthews' brain like any other z0mbie.", tinycore linux distribution users such as myself don't have to put up with this sort of badgering from a one hit z0mbie wonder like yourself.

Pretty much, at least AFAIK, although IIRC Gentoo came with tsch too, maybe more(?), and people had to choose what shell the user/s had.

A lot of people find it hard to be creative about the CLI. They find it hard to explain how it is useful. But there is a lot of fun in it.

AFAIK it runs the shell, you selected as default. Like the wonderful, wonderful fish.