Re:Sys Admins: What's hard about Windows admin? (Score 0)

An operating system that lacks a comprehensive command line is unmanageable. If someone comes up with a better (faster and/or more flexible) I/O mechanism than a text command line, I would be thrilled to use it. The Windows & Mac GUI model is inadequate. Anything that can be done via GUI can be done faster via command line. Command line is the only medium (other than the spoken word) I know of which uses the same language for input, processing, and output. That allows you to pipe output from one command into another command and use command output to specify the processing to occur. Command scripts are organic things that can grow and adapt over time to address the needs of a specific system in a specific environment. For diagnosing a problem, GUI isn't capable of being anything but second-best when compared to command line. For speed of use, GUI isn't capable of being anything but second-best when compared to command line. Thank you for your posting. This helped me to clairfy one of my arguments.