command line file managers (simple)

[chuckh at ftml.net]

Here's my $0.02 on the matter.

Since I still use the descendent of pine for email, I have the descendent
of pilot for a file manager. It does most of what I need to do as a file
manager, but it's not my favorite method. I also use edbrowse for most of
its many functions, and as a file manager it is a pleasure to use. True,
you can't mark things and then delete the list of marked items all at
once, nor can pilot do that, but if that's important, you had better stick
with a GUI.

As an editor, edbrowse resembles ed most closely. Imagine ed given a
directory name to open instead of a file. If that were edbrowse, you would
be placed in "directory mode" and presented with an alphabetized list of
the files in that directory. Each file is like a line in a text file now,
and can be deleted, renamed, opened for further editing, or even played if
it happens to be an audio file.

Bottom line: I don't feel the lack of a dedicated command line file
manager here. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

Chuck


 On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Tom Fowle
wrote:

> 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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