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

[Ted Gould]

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?  (I asked someone a similar question on Usenet, and he waffled
> worse than any politician you've ever seen.)

How would a user create 60,000 files?  Sounds like something you'd need
a script for.

		--Ted

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