# Thank God for Command Line

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-command-line/643779>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 12, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-command-line/643779 "2012-12-12T01:23:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-command-line/643779/21 "2012-12-14T19:09:36Z")

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Cute. They could make it more realistic and print up a system message to come back after 8 PM to enter the request.

How ironic that Google60 won’t run on something as “old” as IE8, but it works fine on Safari.

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-command-line/643779/22 "2012-12-14T19:39:19Z")

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I get to work on Solaris all day - so I’m quite lucky. In fact, command line is so powerful that there are cases where it makes sense to insert shell commands inside Perl scripts, because certain things can be done much faster this way.

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**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-command-line/643779/23 "2012-12-15T18:29:54Z")

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> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> I love the command line. I would never get a Mac because it had no command line (now that it is based on Linux, I imagine it does).

Yes it does. Terminal is a fully integrated command line for the Mac. Has been since pre-2006 which is when I first started using a Mac in earnest.

In fact, was working on the command line on my student’s computer the other day. Her officemate looked over and comes out with “I don’t know what she’s doing, but its really freaking cool” 😉

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-command-line/643779/24 "2012-12-15T18:44:22Z")

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> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> I love the command line. I would never get a Mac because it had no command line (now that it is based on Linux, I imagine it does). I use an enhanced command processor for Windows called TakeCommand. It is a descendant of 4DOS and 4NT.

OS X is NOT based on Linux!  
It’s based on Free BSD.

It’s had a command line since 1999 (2001 if you only count consumer versions).

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