That disgusting, difficult, awful command line!
What is behind all the fear and loathing of the command line? Look at some of the phrases used in this recent "The command-line phrasebook" post at Tuxradar:
"the rest of us often avoid it like the plague"
"fussy syntax "
"need to type accurately"
"too darned hard"
What drives this? Is it really that hard to type words? Don't most of us type words every day in email? Why should this be so repugnant?
Is it that the words are unfamiliar? "mv", "grep", "cd" - OK, those aren't words we use in conversation (well, we Unix geeks do). But, sheesh, is it so hard to learn a few new words? For basic shell use, there really aren't that many. Out of the last 500 commands I typed, I only used 31 Unix commands and I'm an atypical user. Your average Joe command line user probably would need to know less than twenty commands:
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