Command line stuff

[Derek Broughton]

Donn wrote:

>> Honestly, Donn, this scenario is one of the few times I would get out a
>> graphical file manager.
> Sure, that's really why I asked on the list - just in case I was missing
> some clever trick. The ones I've seen so far are as expected: using pipes
> and greps and whatnot. This is not bad, just a little fiddly.
> 
> I often find myself wishing I could do it the gui-way when I'm on the cli.
> Let me bounce my idea off ya:
> 
> The working name of the script is 'fui' for fake-ui.
> 1. fui --select *.jpg,a.pdf,wobble,bling,png --exclude stupid.jpg
> That would select those files.
...
You could probably do much of this with dcop (actually, you could do all of
it with dcop if the programs required had the appropriate interfaces) but
by that point you'd have had to install a full gui and just be luddishly
trying not to use it :-)
-- 
derek