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. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
