command line file managers (simple)

[Tom Fowle]

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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