Using a shell as a file browser !

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: pitupepito2000
n0cmonkey, I personally find that the "-i" option has saved my a** many times, that I would have overwritten files that I didn't want to overwrite. I alsmost see it as a must, otherwise whithout it the changes that you made by mistake are permanent 🙁

Definitely. And it would save my butt a few times. But it gets annoying. My opinion on it not being the default is only for me. And although I may look down on bash, I won't look down on people for using the -i option. 😉

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: drag
Another thing I do to make Gnome's filemanager more command line friendly is I delete the stupid Dekstop folder, and go "ln -s Desktop ~/" So that my desktop is the same folder as my home folder. That makes things easier for me.

While I rather like the Desktop folder myself, if you want it this way you can set the /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir gconf key to True. Then you won't even need the symlink.

 

[pitupepito2000]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: pitupepito2000
n0cmonkey, I personally find that the "-i" option has saved my a** many times, that I would have overwritten files that I didn't want to overwrite. I alsmost see it as a must, otherwise whithout it the changes that you made by mistake are permanent 🙁

Definitely. And it would save my butt a few times. But it gets annoying. My opinion on it not being the default is only for me. And although I may look down on bash, I won't look down on people for using the -i option. 😉

You're right, it does get annoying if you are removing/copying/etc a lot of files or a folder full of files. In that case what I like to use is "yes | rm -r folder" or "yes n | rm -r folder" lol