which file manager you use?

[Robin Laing]

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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