[kwlug-disc] ncurses file selection tool

[Doug Moen]

I've heard that GNU Midnight Commander is a good choice, but haven't tried it.

I personally use vim for this, but you are asking for something more user friendly.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021, at 9:17 AM, Chris Frey wrote:
> I'm looking for a tool that displays a list, or lists, of files using
> ncurses style graphics, which lets the user select files graphically
> and do things with them.
> 
> Think GUI file manager, where you can Ctrl-click the files you want,
> but closer to the command line.
> 
> Does any such tool exist?
> 
> For example, suppose you wanted to create a list of files from a set of
> obscurely named JPGs, but only pictures where your dog was included, run
> them through a bunch of imagemagick transforms to reduce their size,
> then tar them up for emailing.  All without leaving the terminal.
> What tool would you use?
> 
> If anyone is familiar with mutt's email interface, something similar to
> its tagging and filtering and search features, but with files.
> 
> Thanks!
> - Chris
> 
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