Command line stuff

[Donn]

Yo,
Here's a scene:
You are in a dir in a console. You have a few consoles (or tabs) open around 
the place. You want to move some files to another dir. You want *.jpg but 
not "blob.jpg". You also want a few pdfs, but not all of them.
The way I know is a kind of flow like:
mv *.jpg /some/other/damn/long/path
cp /some/other/damn/long/path/blob.jpg .
mv a.pdf b.pdf c.pdf /some/other/damn/long/path

This means quite a bit of planning (depending on the needs) and a bunch path 
tab completing, up arrow stuff, editing and so on.

Is there some way to select the files you want and copy/cut them to another 
dir - even by going to another console entirely where that dir is  current?

I mean, really, to use the gui a little like we use Konqueror. To pick out 
files, copy them and paste them someplace else.

If there's no gnu tool or way to do this, I'd be surprised; and I'm thinking 
of doodling one in Python.

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