Beartooth wrote: > On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:13:58 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > [....] >> You might want to look at Midnight Commander (mc). It is a curses >> based CLI tool, so you will have to run it in a terminal window. The >> nice thing about it is that you can highlight a file, directory, or >> a group of them, and change permissions using check boxes for the >> permissions you want. (Ctrl-X c or F9 --> File --> cHmod ) > > I've long wondered what that was. How do you invoke it? It's been around > long enough that the command is surely short; I thought I had also seen it > in my Gnome menu, but I don't now. Nor do I see it in the list I get if I > tell Konqueror "man:m" > > But "mc" doesn't seem to be the command, either : > [btth@localhost ~]$ mc > bash: mc: command not found > [btth@localhost ~]$ > > (I presume it's installed by default; I'm not sure how to check. The new > FC6 search function seems not to do the things I want it for.) > I am not sure if it is installed by default or not in FC6. It is one of the programs that I use so often that if it is not installed by default, I make sure to install it. You invoke it with mc, so that is not working, you will need to run "yum install mc" to install it. One thing you may find interesting - in Gname Terminal, from the File --> Open Terminal menu, you have the option of opening a MC terminal when Midnight Commander is installed. If you want a GUI program to do this, Nautilus will do it. You right click on the file or directory, pick Properties, and then the Permissions tab. (I don't do it often enough, so I had to check the steps...) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
