despite it being a GUI tool that can't be piped, that loose all the shell goodness such as command history and text substitution, I already did in my example.
the sysadmins in question used mc to delete weird named files just because they never bothered to learn correct argument passing in bash. they didn't know about quotes for filenames with spaces, they didn't know about '--' flag parsing termination argument. when their badly written script broke, they just manually fixed with mc and call it a day.
it's like seeing someone not using the scroll wheel to scroll. If you think that's elitist so be it.
http://www.reddit.com/tb/df8cd
the sysadmins in question used mc to delete weird named files just because they never bothered to learn correct argument passing in bash. they didn't know about quotes for filenames with spaces, they didn't know about '--' flag parsing termination argument. when their badly written script broke, they just manually fixed with mc and call it a day.
it's like seeing someone not using the scroll wheel to scroll. If you think that's elitist so be it. http://www.reddit.com/tb/df8cd