To navigate between directories the internal comands dirs, pushd,
popd, etc are very useful. Also you can do multiple tasks in the same
terminal with the job control commands.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439_AT_csun.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:59:03 +0900
> Alan Busby <thebusby_AT_thebusby.com> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > I am astounded by how many respondents regularly use file managers!
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I'm starting to feel like I'm missing something here...
>> Do file managers have some killer feature that the shells
>> (bash/tcsh/zsh/etc) don't?
>>
>
> It seems like I'm on the other side of table here...I've been trying to
> look for a good file manager and I found TuxCmd to be the best. It's
> basically midnight commander with tabs. I guess I could be missing
> something here...
>
> So if you need to work on let's say around 5-6 source code files along
> with constant references to external files such as pdf's, etc. you have
> multiple tabs in a terminal or multiple shells open and use that to
> navigate the file system? Also if you had to copy between files between
> multiple directories...isn't there a lot of "typing" going on?
>
>
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