fui on the command line

[Dotan Cohen]

On 27/01/2008, Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For those who missed the previous thread, care to explain what the script
> > does?
> It's for command-line use, when you are moving herds of files/folders around.
> Rather than mv this that all the time, or using arcane greps and other
> tricks, it let's you simply add files/folders (names) to a selection.
>  So, you can select some files (and using normal wildcards, here for example,
> all the png files)
> fui bling blang bong *.png
> (Then move to another folder)
> cd someotherplace
> fui socks shorts shirts
> (Adds those too)
> Then you decide you don't want shorts or wibble.png
> fui --exclude shorts wibble.png
> (Now you want to copy those somewhere)
> cd whereIwantStuff
> fui --copy
> (done!)
>
> You can also move stuff -- but there is more in the help.
>
> The idea was to imitate the select-copy/cut and paste paradigm from gui file
> managers.

Very nice. Very, very nice. I can imagine this becoming a standard
shell tool like cp. Good job.

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