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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