Console Programs

[Nisheeth]

I was just curious to know that are there any major uses of console apps now a days?
I have only used one as far as I can remember, which was to ping the internet connection.

[Factors]

im guessing that by "console app's" you mean the DOS window's, in that case then it depend's ,I maybe a "Beginner" but i do have a firm and general idea on how thing's tick, so as far as dose DOS window's come then their rare just for the fact that most of the people now in these day's like to have a visual package with the software they download or buy. in other word's it does come down to what that DOS can do but also how it look's because initially your alway's going to be using thing's that are based on the DOS if your using C# and C++ so people are generally going to want more visual's and more user friendly utilitiez
and as far as console app's usage goes, their could be endless uses for it, it's just your creativity holding it back
i hope this helped ,hell i could be wrong

[Nisheeth]

and as far as console app's usage goes, their could be endless uses for it, it's just your creativity holding it back

Of course, But what I was curious to know was that which ones are used throughout the world.
And by console apps I meant the type of programs as made in the tutorials in this site.

[Athar]

grep, find, md5sum, scp, cp, ls, diff and all the rest of the coreutils.
Various compressing programs for the use in batch processing.
Tools like ImageMagick for the use in batch processing.
Your compiler, linker, make and all related tools.
Any type of server application.

And lots more.
IIRC, there was a similar thread in the lounge a while ago.

[Nisheeth]

Thanks a lot for this list. That just sate the curiosity..
I will look for that thread in the lounge as well.

[minty33]

alot of console aps are used in linux to varying degrees. besides file and disk manipulation tools there are aps to surf the web from the console under linux - i forget what its called but that and others are in "damn small linux" i think . DSL is a whole OS w/ thats under 50mb.
it does have a gui but all the GUI aps have console/terminal counterparts . like web browsing email word processing ect..