which file manager you use?

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
> Will you xterm folks elaborate a bit?
> 
> Why do you use xterms?

Because we're old and cranky and dagnabbit it's the way we used to do 
things back before there were mice.
We're sort of saying "I don't use a file manager".

> How?

cd, ls, mv, find, ...

> Any specific tips or tricks you'd like to share?

* Most modern shells like tcsh and bash have the greatest feature in the 
world, auto-completion. Type the first few letters of a file, press 
[tab], and the shell fills in the rest (as long as you've typed enough 
to uniquely identify the file in question).

* rename all files named foo*.c to bar*.cc, in tcsh
foreach file (foo*.c)
 > mv $file `echo $file | sed -e 's/^foo/bar/' | sed -e 's/c$/cc/'`
 > end

* make all subdirectories under this directory that start with 'safe' 
world executable:
% find . -type d -name 'safe*' -exec chmod o+x {} \;