Re: Ownership

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On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 17:53 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
Personally, I find it easier and quicker to do it via keyboard. 
Especially when there are a large number of files. For example, how 
would I do cp *.com  another-dir/ in a GUI? Imagine if the folder has 
abut 300 files with different extensions...

Yes, cp, mv, rm are safer. And easier.

While I'm not disagreeing with you (I, too, am a *nix greybeard who loves the command line), it's definitely possible.

In Nautilus, do click 'Edit | Select Pattern' (or hit Ctrl+S).  Type *.com in the text box, click 'Ok' and then ctrl+drag the files to the 'another-dir' folder.

The thing I find Nautilus lacking is in certain recursive operations.  For instance, it isn't possible using Nautilus to automatically change all permissions in all directories recursively under 'foo' to 'rwxrwxr-x' without doing a 'Select All' at each directory level, right clicking, and then clicking the right check boxes.  You have to do this for EACH directory level.  At a bash prompt, I can just do 'chmod -R 775 foo' and be done with it.



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