9 Oct
2007
9 Oct
'07
9:43 p.m.
On 10/8/07, Monty J. Harder [email protected] wrote:
[...] I routinely compose "recipes" of Bourne shell commands that expedite configuring a *nix server in a certain way, and share them with my co-workers. With those recipes, they can quickly apply a fix to establish a consistent state on the target machine. Explaining how to do the same thing in a GUI can take several pages.
Ah yes. But walking an illiterate through a GUI over the telephone is easier than walking the same illiterate through a CLI. There were people I remember talking with when I worked at GW2K, the letters of the alphabet were not their friends.