Hi, everybody Recently, a guy noticed that I was using it and asked why? For me it because in Linux many things are done through the terminal because Linux has many different desktop environments

He also compared terminal commands with cheat codes in GTA and other games, he understands what benefits you take from them, but not from terminal commands

  • pelya
    24•9 months ago

    To get shit done in general.

    If I need to rename a file, yeah, I can do that by right-clicking it in the file explorer, and selecting ‘rename’ from the menu. Two files? Painful but doable. Three files? Oh hell no, I’m switching to my always-open-in-background terminal window, and write a quick c=1; for f in *.jpeg; do mv "$f" $c.jpeg; c=`expr $c \+ 1` ; done and it takes twice less time than clicking things through with mouse.

    And yes, I wrote that shell command off the top of my head on the first try and without edits.

    • @[email protected]
      7•9 months ago

      Just so you know, in emacs you can do mass rename of multiple files using dired-mode. Never use a for loop again.

      • pelya
        3•9 months ago

        I’m sorry, I’m too old to learn emacs over my perfect knowledge of Midnight Commander.

        The point of this topic was to tell why we are using terminal, and emacs is kind of terminal on steroids, there are like 1000 key bindings and the mouse is totally optional, you are proving the point even further.

      • Snarwin
        2•9 months ago

        There’s also vidir from moreutils, which lets you bulk-rename files in your $EDITOR of choice.

        • pelya
          3•9 months ago

          It’s emacspiracy to subtly teach unsuspecting Ubuntu users the despicable ways of Emacs Lisp.

          It all starts with learning 100 common terminal keybindings. And un-learning Ctrl-C.

    • exu
      English
      5•9 months ago

      The Thunar bulk renamer is relatively good, but recently I wanted to name images based on the capture date. Probably very tedious without the right GUI tool, while it’s just one line using exiftool in the terminal. (I don’t know it off the top of my head)

      Similarly, I just extracted the audio only from a video using ffmpeg in like 10s.
      ffmpeg -i video.mkv -c:a copy out.mka