Command line for users (was: Re: PDFTK and such . . ..)

[Matt Graham]

From: Ted Gould <ted at gould.cx>
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 15:39 -0700, Matt Graham wrote:
>> There are some things that are much easier from the command line than
>> from any GUI.  "There are 30,000 files in dir A and 30,000 files in
>> dir B.  Which filenames are in dir A and dir B?"  ls and sort and 
>> uniq -d make this easy from a prompt; how would you do this from a
>> GUI?
> How would a user create 60,000 files?  Sounds like something you'd need
> a script for.
 
DownloadThemAll Firefox extension + websites containing pictures of 
people in various states of undress = a *LOT* of JPEGs.  In that case,
though, you'd probably have to compare md5sums and not filenames to
weed out duplicates.  I was fortunate in that when I had to do this, 
the files were XML with a strict naming convention, so I could go by
filename.

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