I don't need any examples, but thx anyway I use linux since 1996, Slackware was the first. Today i use Red Hat on one computer, Windows XP on another and Guardian Digital Linux as a server. You are right about learning but some people simple have not time for that. Sure console is more powerfool and faster, look at this example: when you need to chmod many files, instead to do that on every single file, you can do this: find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ; and that will chmoded every single file in that directory at once that is what i call power