ranger – try terminal file manager

ranger is a terminal file manager, just install and run and have some fun.

Tip: You might want to try it on uxrvt terminal and in Photos folder once.

Name : ranger

Version : 1.7.2

Release : 8.fc28

Arch : noarch

Size : 1.2 M

Source : ranger-1.7.2-8.fc28.src.rpm

Repo : @System

From repo : fedora

Summary : A flexible console file manager

URL : http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ranger/

License : GPLv3+

Description : Ranger is a free console file manager that gives you greater flexibility and a

good overview of your files without having to leave your *nix console. It

visualizes the directory tree in two dimensions: the directory hierarchy on

one, lists of files on the other, with a preview to the right so you know where

you’ll be going.

Windows Vs Linux – One more time

One of the most written and commented articles has to be Linux vs Windows (of course there are competitors like vim vs emacs) but none has been covered so much as Linux vs Windows. So, what am I going to write here which is not covered earlier in so many other posts. Well a little different perspective 🙂

sunflower – file manager.

Sunflower file manager is a new file manager that has couple of interesting features, that I liked, not that I use graphical file managers much.

It has a in-built command line, terminal and other interesting features, so what are you waiting for just head over and download and install :

rpm -ivh http://sunflower-fm.org/pub/sunflower-0.1a.58-1.noarch.rpm

Or head over to their downloads page at :

http://sunflower-fm.org/pub/

There is still no home-page and might come soon.

nautilis fork ( File manager ) with tree view in sidebar.

Was searching for this for sometime now, finally found it.

sudo yum install nemo
sudo yum list nemo*

First just install nemo. Configure nemo not to interfere with default desktop and also make it default handler. So, here are the settings that would do it.

gconftool-2 --set  /desktop/gnome/applications/component_viewer/exec --type 'string' 'nemo "%s"'
gconftool-2 --set  /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/trash/command --type 'string' 'nemo "%s"'
gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons false

Now, if you need more functionality in file manager then check the list of nemo packages from the output of second command of yum. It has plugins like file preview and so on. Install and enjoy.

inotify -watch for file to change

Here is a simple command for you. It uses inotify tools. So first you need to install :

sudo yum install inotify-tools

and then you can try something like this:

while true; 
do 
inotifywait -r -e modify --exclude=".swp" . && make; 
done

Here, once the file changes, we are running make, but you can do anything you want.

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Delete all but some directories

I think, like me, you would have faced a lot of situations, where you wanted to delete all the files or directories in a location, leaving only the required files/directories. So, I have a directory containing lots of files/directories and I want to delete most of them except some 5/10 of them, how to I do it.

I finally wrote a small script to do that. First save list of files that you do not want to delete in file called “listnames” and then execute the below script. This will give you the rm commands that you need to execute. If you want you can execute the rm command from the script, but to be able to review, I just have the commands echoed.

some interesting alias

For this time, I will just give you a link to to bashrc file.

http://hayne.net/MacDev/Bash/aliases.bash

Head over there and see some very interesting aliase’s.

Related articles

• Bryan Quigley: Windows Cant Handle the Hardware (bryanquigley.com)
• semantic grep (github.com)
• Aliases and shortcuts (macstarter.com)