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Why on Earth would I want to use the command line to look at who called me? When has that ever been useful for you?

Personally I can’t imagine a more awful thing than using the command line on a small phone screen to do any serious development. Even a tablet gets claustrophobic.

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> When has that ever been useful for you?

the usual benefits of command line --> parsing the result set, transforming, filtering is easier for me from command line tools than gui cut-paste.

i don't do long command typing from the phone. rather ssh into the phone from my laptop and can work inside the phone's shell.

Here have fun with Python REPL.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.iiec.pydroi...

Command line is just a poor man's REPL.

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