Command line stuff

[John Culleton]

On Wednesday 23 January 2008 09:57:05 am Donn wrote:
> Yo,
> Here's a scene:
> You are in a dir in a console. You have a few consoles (or tabs) open
> around the place. You want to move some files to another dir. You want
> *.jpg but not "blob.jpg". You also want a few pdfs, but not all of them.
> The way I know is a kind of flow like:
> mv *.jpg /some/other/damn/long/path
> cp /some/other/damn/long/path/blob.jpg .
> mv a.pdf b.pdf c.pdf /some/other/damn/long/path
>
> This means quite a bit of planning (depending on the needs) and a bunch
> path tab completing, up arrow stuff, editing and so on.
>
> Is there some way to select the files you want and copy/cut them to another
> dir - even by going to another console entirely where that dir is  current?
>
> I mean, really, to use the gui a little like we use Konqueror. To pick out
> files, copy them and paste them someplace else.
>
> If there's no gnu tool or way to do this, I'd be surprised; and I'm
> thinking of doodling one in Python.
>
> \d
> --
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>
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I usually move to the target directory and use something like:

mv /usr/local/mysourcedirectory/filename .

The space followed by period at the end is of course necessary. 

Now, how does one open a console window in KDE 4.0? 

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