I second Ville on this then...

IMHO
Having a command prompt is an excuse for not having good GUI tools to do the same job. Now, i know that console type programs are easier to code and quicker to develop at first sight but in the end we will have 2 lousy systems(gui & tty) instead of 1 decent.

Scripting, on the other hand, is good but you really need to think it trough carefully or you will end up with a Windows/Linux situation.
(Lots of different languages that can do one trick great but not the others, lots of security issues,...)

My two cents..