Ownership

[Rob Shinn]

On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 17:53 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:

> Personally, I find it easier and quicker to do it via keyboard. 
> Especially when there are a large number of files. For example, how 
> would I do cp *.com  another-dir/ in a GUI? Imagine if the folder has 
> abut 300 files with different extensions...
> 
> Yes, cp, mv, rm are safer. And easier.


While I'm not disagreeing with you (I, too, am a *nix greybeard who
loves the command line), it's definitely possible.

In Nautilus, do click 'Edit | Select Pattern' (or hit Ctrl+S).  Type
*.com in the text box, click 'Ok' and then ctrl+drag the files to the
'another-dir' folder.

The thing I find Nautilus lacking is in certain recursive operations.
For instance, it isn't possible using Nautilus to automatically change
all permissions in all directories recursively under 'foo' to 'rwxrwxr-
x' without doing a 'Select All' at each directory level, right clicking,
and then clicking the right check boxes.  You have to do this for EACH
directory level.  At a bash prompt, I can just do 'chmod -R 775 foo' and
be done with it.


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