We make very careful considerations about the interface and operation of the GNU coreutils, but unfortunately due to backwards compatibility reasons, some behaviours or defaults of these utilities can be confusing.
This information will continue to be updated and overlaps somewhat with the coreutils FAQ, with this list focusing on less frequent potential issues.
Good tips and reminders for those who don't work mostly with a CLI (Command Line Interface).
[What has been YOUR biggest CLI gotcha? -Ed.]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bziman on Wednesday December 02 2015, @03:07AM
I still find a command line a hundred times easier and more intuitive than any graphical user interface.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday December 02 2015, @04:22AM
Neal Stephenson wrote a rant/essay about that: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html [cryptonomicon.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @01:25PM
Photoshop/Krita/Call of Duty/Starcraft/Skyrim via a CLI is going to be inferior than using a GUI. So in many scenarios GUIs are better than CLIs. In theory a GUI can be a superset of a CLI therefore GUIs could be better than CLIs. But that's just theory.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday December 02 2015, @06:58PM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by bziman on Thursday December 03 2015, @02:58AM
I find interfaces designed by people with expertise in HCI to be wholly unusable. I can't speak for anyone else. I find HCI people tend to try to speak for everyone. I don't like them.