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Re: [LUG] The Command Line

 

On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 21:47 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:12:19 +0100
> Paul Sutton wrote:
> 
> > On 24/06/11 20:18, James Fidell wrote:
> > > On 20/06/11 12:13, Tony Sumner wrote:
> > > 
> > >> I use the CLI a lot,
> > > 
> > > There's another way? :)
> > > 
> > > The most useful thing a GUI has done for me is to allow me to run
> > > lots of CLI sessions at once.
> > > 
> > > James
> > > 
> > 
> > Not that i use it much but screen gives you the same or similar
> > functionality.  run more than one console and switch between them.
> > 
> > Paul
> 
> It's not as easy to have 2 screen sessions open simultaneously on the
> same console as it is to have 2 graphical terminal sessions open on the
> same X session.
> 
> Grant.

How many sessions would you have open at any one time? The other day I
was SSH'd into 5 different servers just waiting for the nod on various
SQL query commits. Most for me to date. Maybe 5 is small fry to you guys
though - haha

Joe



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