Power Up Linux GUI Apps
Save time and gain functionality by starting your GUI apps from the command line.
Windowing interfaces to Linux have lots of advantages. Once you find the programs you need, the menus and dialog boxes list your choices, and there’s often not much else to know about the interface.
One big disadvantage of GUI apps, though, is that you’re mostly limited to whatever the interface lets you do — unless you want to re-code the interface yourself, that is. For instance, how can you use a photo viewer to see all of the photos you put in various places on your disk this past Monday? If you know where the photos are stored and what their names are, you can navigate through your directories in a file browser like Nautilus, clicking on files to view them. But what a pain!
Linux users have more choices. You can start most GUI apps from the command line with a list of arguments (usually filenames) to work on. This lets you marry the handy features of shells (filename completion, wildcards, loops and more), and well as the power of utilities like find and grep, to the GUI apps you’re already using. The command line also often lets you specify options that aren’t available from menus.
Let’s start with a couple of examples. You’d like to use GIMP to edit the photo files with rome in their filenames — like rome12.jpg and elsa in rome.jpg. Start GIMP this way:
$ gimp *rome*.jpg
You have photos of Rome in some of your 100 subdirectories but you aren’t sure which. You’d like to view them all with Eye of GNOME. Let find or the shell find the files and give their pathnames to eog:
$ eog $(find . -name '*rome*.jpg' -print) $ eog **/*rome*.jpg
The second example above works in Z Shell and in bash version 4 with the globstar shell option set. (** is a recursive wildcard operator. To learn more, read Even Wilder Wildcards.)
Building the Command Line
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