which file manager you use?

[Bob Marcan]

Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> 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 {} \;
> 
> 

Old, good FileRunner.
Runs on everything with tcl/tk installed.

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