which file manager you use?
Bob Marcan
bob at interstudio.homeunix.net
Fri Feb 6 09:07:31 UTC 2004
Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
>
>> Will you xterm folks elaborate a bit?
>>
>> Why do you use xterms?
>
>
> Because we're old and cranky and dagnabbit it's the way we used to do
> things back before there were mice.
> We're sort of saying "I don't use a file manager".
>
>> How?
>
>
> cd, ls, mv, find, ...
>
>> Any specific tips or tricks you'd like to share?
>
>
> * Most modern shells like tcsh and bash have the greatest feature in the
> world, auto-completion. Type the first few letters of a file, press
> [tab], and the shell fills in the rest (as long as you've typed enough
> to uniquely identify the file in question).
>
> * rename all files named foo*.c to bar*.cc, in tcsh
> foreach file (foo*.c)
> > mv $file `echo $file | sed -e 's/^foo/bar/' | sed -e 's/c$/cc/'`
> > end
>
> * make all subdirectories under this directory that start with 'safe'
> world executable:
> % find . -type d -name 'safe*' -exec chmod o+x {} \;
>
>
Old, good FileRunner.
Runs on everything with tcl/tk installed.
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