[kwlug-disc] ncurses file selection tool

[CrankyOldBugger]

AFAIK, Midnight Commander still rides...


On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 09:42, Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> 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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