Yesterday I was on a voice call with some TRON players, and a new player had a problem with their game failing to download some of the multiplayer maps. So we were helping this new guy download his maps from the website manually, and someone in the voice chat said “Just use curl to download them, it’s easier than using the gui”.
Now for those who don’t know, curl is the command line interface command to access a website. So this person is saying it’s easier to browse the internet in a bash client, typing in all your commands, than to use firefox to surf the internet.
Linux users, man! I have so much respect for the older people who are so used to using CLIs
I’ve tried browsing lemmy through curl, and I learned a lot, but it was a usability nightmare.
I don’t think most people would try to browse lemmy via curl, unless they’re gluttons for punishment like the people who write brainfuck code. I don’t use it as a full replacement for graphical browsers, it’s more useful for one-off downloads or for scripts that need to search through pages.
For browsing there’s always links.
Personally I’m partial to Lynx for cli-based browsing, but I don’t really have much reason for it. It’s more of a novelty than a necessary tool for me.
Yeah, but if I recommended that one I wouldn’t have gotten to link a link to links(’ documentation).
It only could have been more exciting to have had an excuse to link multiple links links. This is also why I didn’t link links2.
Links.
edit: Sorry for getting a bit hyper about links.
Oh yeah, searching! You could use grep to look for specific lines! Thanks, I understand better now