Kclug Digest, Vol 39, Issue 9

[David Nicol]

On 10/8/07, Monty J. Harder <mjharder at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]  I
> routinely compose "recipes" of Bourne shell commands that expedite
> configuring a *nix server in a certain way, and share them with my
> co-workers.  With those recipes, they can quickly apply a fix to establish a
> consistent state on the target machine.  Explaining how to do the same thing
> in a GUI can take several pages.

Ah yes.  But walking an illiterate through a GUI over the telephone is
easier than walking the same illiterate through a CLI.  There were people
I remember talking with when I worked at GW2K, the letters of the alphabet
were not their friends.