Even after 18 years of use, I still get blown away at how amazingly useful the command line can be for doing anything slightly non-trivial with text and files. Maybe that’s why it’s still going strong for 50 years and counting.
@lmika On my Mac at work I still do a lot of regular tasks via command line, as it’s so much faster than using Finder and I can keep my hands on the keyboard.
@pimoore For me, this morning it was taking a bunch of files from one repo, making a single line change in each one, and copying it over the two other repos. It would've taken me 10 minutes to do this manually, with me complaining the whole time. Used git, grep and sed and the whole thing was done in seconds. So satisfying!
@lmika It really is! I’ve worked some magic with scripts at my job that even my coworkers are using via Cygwin on Windows.
May the CLI never die.