{"id":205,"date":"2005-10-25T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1209"},"modified":"2005-10-25T07:00:32","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T14:00:32","slug":"windows-and-the-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Windows and the command line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason - I don't know why - many Windows experts think that command lines are old-hat and should be disposed of forthwith.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours have been rife for years that the command line will disappear from Windows - there were even rumours that Windows XP would come without a command line interpreter. <\/p>\n<p>This onslaught against the command line is odd. The command line forms a very useful way of interacting with a computer, without having to develop a complex GUI, and often providing functionality that would be difficult or clumsy within a GUI. For example, finding all of the files in a command line with filenames containing 'start'. It's not impossible to do it within a GUI, but often the GUI designers don't make it easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason &#8211; I don&#8217;t know why &#8211; many Windows experts think that command lines are old-hat and should be disposed of forthwith.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours have been rife for years that the command line will disappear from Windows &#8211; there were even rumours that Windows XP would come without a command line interpreter. <\/p>\n<p>This onslaught against the command line is odd. The command line forms a very useful way of interacting with a computer, without having to develop a complex GUI, and often providing functionality that would be difficult or clumsy within a GUI. For example, finding all of the files in a command line with filenames containing &#8216;start&#8217;. It&#8217;s not impossible to do it within a GUI, but often the GUI designers don&#8217;t make it easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}