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Tim
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Thu Jul 5 06:50:14 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell:
>>> But, but, but... Having a slew of files with no commonalities doesn't
>>> just happen by itself.
Tim:
>> Ooooh yes it does (panto voice)... You don't get a say in the naming of
>> some things, not every file is one that you've created yourself. Even
>> when you do have control, you may not want to similarly name two (or
>> more) files that *may* get used together in something else.
Forgot the obvious to this sort of thing: You'd be using a file manager
to try and bring chaos back into something easier to deal with.
Les Mikesell:
> I can't think of anything on my computer other than the OS distribution
> where I did not have the choice of the directory where it was stored,
> but in those cases you probably also can't decide by seeing the name in
> a GUI view what the files do have in common or why you'd pick some of
> them for a certain operation. You'd probably need to let grep or find
> generate a list for you based on something in the files contents or
> attributes. And then xargs will run a command on each one in the list
> for you.
And doing all that paraphanalia is easier than opening a directory or
three in a file manager and looking at what's there?
Plugging two or three drives into a system, that have been ripped out of
others, to get bits and pieces from all over them onto a new system is a
right pain in the bum to do through the command line. But very easy to
do graphically.
> "GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and
> impossible to accomplish complex actions." --Doug Gwyn (22/Jun/91 in
> comp.unix.wizards) This has not changed - and probably can't.
Have you tried DOpus 5 (or later) on a Windows environment? If you have
the opportunity, do so. Then you'll see what can be done with a decent
GUI file manager.
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