command line file managers (simple)

[Tom Fowle]

Willem,
thanks I'll check all these out.
tom

On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 08:03:34AM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> As you have installed kies, there is another way to do copy, see the
> example menus in /usr/local/share/kies/menu_system/menus.
> In particular, files.txt in that directory.
> You can kind of do the delete thing using:
> pickafile 'rm -rf'
> I use that some times when cleaning out a large directory, but
> remember, if you press enter on the wrong file, it is gone!
> Delete and copy should be implemented within pickafile, but as I had
> no interest from people before and personally simply do these things
> from the command line, it has not yet been done.
> Kind regards, Willem
> 
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Tom Fowle wrote:
> 
> >Willem
> >Thanks, pickafile installed as advertised.
> >
> >Am I correct that it is not possible to move through a directory choosing to
> >either move-copy individual files or delete them? one at a time?
> >I understand that only one file can be moved at a time.
> >These two choices are, at least for me, the most common, actually three
> >choices, do nothing, delete, or copy a file.
> >
> >
> >thanks
> >tom
> >
> >On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 08:23:35AM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> >>For what its worth, here is one I wrote called pickafile.
> >>It is part of the package kies that I wrote.
> >>Copy pickafile, getterm and catchkey into the execution path, e.g.
> >>/usr/local/bin and copy pickafile.1 to a directory in your manpath,
> >>e.g. /usr/local/man/man1
> >>
> >> Two keys not yet documented is v for view based on mime tipe and m
> >>for move or rename.
> >>m is used a first time to identify what needs to be moved and a
> >>second time once the place where it needs to be moved to, is
> >>reached. Name can also be changed which is the rename of a file.
> >>HTH, Willem
> >>
> >>On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >>
> >>>Another file manager vsweep if available may be helpful.
> >>>On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Tom Fowle wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 22:15:33
> >>>>From: Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm>
> >>>>Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> >>>>    <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> >>>>To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> >>><speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> >>>>Subject: Re: command line file managers (simple)
> >>>>
> >>>>Hi Janina,
> >>>>Good to knnow someone with your experience is also still looking.
> >>>>
> >>>>I often just use
> >>>>rm -i *.*
> >>>>for file-by-file keep or delete.
> >>>>
> >>>>Seems to me should be possible to build something in a shell script that
> >>>>would do much of what we need.
> >>>>I'll mess with that.
> >>>>
> >>>>thanks
> >>>>Tom
> >>>>
> >>>>On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 06:40:56PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> >>>>>Hi, Tom:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I regret I don't have a good anwer for you. In fact, I have the same
> >>>>>need and have never satisfied it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I never used "New Sweep." My nostaliga is for the "select copy," "select
> >>>>>delete," and "select move" commands built into the old 4DOS shell. Those
> >>>>>were the days.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Probably the best console level solution is via Emacspeak, which I don't
> >>>>>use enough to make that my solution.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I do sometimes use lynx on a directory. It doesn't do everything I used
> >>>>>to do in 4DOS, but it does let me look at the directory listing, one at
> >>>>>a time, and decide to keep or delete.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Janina
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Tom Fowle writes:
> >>>>>> O.K. folks, laughter is encouraged, but---
> >>>>>> Is there a truly simple command line file manager? that works well with
> >>>>>> speakup?
> >>>>>> > Tried MC and suppose I could learn it but it still does
> >>>>>too much.
> >>>>>> Now for the laughs?
> >>>>>> Does anybody remember the old dos program
> >>>>>> "new sweep?"
> >>>>>> Tried to install edbrowse and no luck on debian Wheezie
> >>>>>> Thanks
> >>>>>> tom
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