| My thoughts as well. Sure I know there is an apparent wealth of command line utilities that can do everything you want and more. But not everyone knows those. Take me for instance: I know a couple of programming laguages pretty well and know how to do most of the typical awk/sed/grep/... functionality in them by hart. I don't do a lot of command line work though, and never came around to learning it properly, so when I do and have to do something like 'move all files if some condition is true'/'do x for files containing y' and so on it's always the same struggle - couple of options: - start googling around till solution found using awk/sed/... crawl through sometimes awkward syntax and require multiple dummy runs or on copies od data (not nice if it's in the TB ranges) to make sure I don't screw something up - once and for all learn the ins and outs of awk/sed/...; not sure if the amount of time I'd have to spend on it is worth it - start an IDE, write some C++ or C#, enter debugger and fix things on the go until correct. The process is usually way faster than the above one since I know syntax and needed methods by hart - write Python/MsBuild script - use something like pythonpy Usually any of these except the first two seem a better idea in my case. So next time I'm definitely going to try the last one out. |