which file manager you use?
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Feb 5 16:34:29 UTC 2004
Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
> Will you xterm folks elaborate a bit?
>
> Why do you use xterms?
> How?
> Any specific tips or tricks you'd like to share?
>
> Robin Laing wrote:
>
>> Hal Burgiss wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:10:26PM +0100, Peter wrote:
>>>
>>>> hi,
>>>> which file manager you use?
>>>
>>>
>>> Dualing xterms.
>>
>>
>> xterms are my favorite.
Simple.
When moving, editing or changing files around, I open an xterm session
and 'cd' into the directory that I am working with. Open another
xterm session and 'cd' into another directory.
ls gives me a listing and then I can do what I want. Moving files
around is as easy as mv xxx.file to /location/. Renaming files is as
easy as mv xxx.file yyy.file
It makes windows or new linux users shudder when they want some help
and I start by opening a terminal window to look at files and details.
It is very fast to move files around when you don't have to click
and open many different directory views in a file manager.
With a some scripting, many more tools are created to manage files and
directories from an xterm window. Much more than can explained on
this list.
One of my favorite is a perl script for renaming files. It has the
ability to rename groups of files from a single command.
I have also changed my .bashrc and added
alias rm='rm -i'
alias cp='cp -i --backup=t'
alias mv='mv -i --backup=t'
to assist in those accidental finger screwups.
Look at the man or info pages for each of the above commands.
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Robin Laing
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