The Linux CLI for Beginners, or, Fear Not the Linux Command Line!

LinuxPlanet - Print - The Linux CLI for Beginners, or, Fear Not the Linux Command Line!: "if you spend all your time in the GUI, you're missing out. The Linux command-line gives you a lot of power -- it lets you do tasks that are difficult or impossible with the GUI, and for tasks that you do a lot, such as launching the same applications everyday, it's often faster. When you read about using the command line, which is often abbreviated to CLI for 'command-line interface', they usually mean typing commands into a terminal. This is a term leftover from the olden days of interfacing with mainframes via dumb terminals which had no processing power of their own; they were pretty much just monitors and keyboards. When we refer to a Linux terminal it's a software application, and if you want to get technical it's a terminal emulator."