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Originally Posted by HarryT
Eg, if you want to copy a group of unrelated files from one place to another, it's quicker to graphically select them in a file browser than it is to type in their names;
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I would actually dispute even that if using a decent shell with command-completion. It'd have to be a really weird case, like there are lots of files in the directory, and you want to copy over a specific three of them, and their filenames are random so you'd need to type them out instead of completing them, *but* the ones you want are arranged alphabetically so they show up next to each other in the GUI. Something like that. I'd be willing to bet that for pretty much every other example you can construct that I could do it faster from a command-line shell. (For example in the above case if you just want three random files, you can just do something like "ls -1 | head -n3 | xargs -i mv '{}' dest/")