[mcsjgs]

I'm learning Unix, and I need a tool to be able to more effectively navigate, move, and delete files that I create. In DOS before Windows, there was a program called Norton Commander that had all these functions and more.

Does anyone have any suggestions about equivalent open source programs available? All this can be done on the command line, but it's faster (and a bit safer) if I can see exactly what I am doing. Your help appreciated. Ideally, the program would refresh the tree screen as you do something (make a directory or subdirectory, move or delete files, etc.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by mcsjgs:
I'm learning Unix, and I need a tool to be able to more effectively navigate, move, and delete files that I create. In DOS before Windows, there was a program called Norton Commander that had all these functions and more.

Does anyone have any suggestions about equivalent open source programs available? All this can be done on the command line, but it's faster (and a bit safer) if I can see exactly what I am doing. Your help appreciated. Ideally, the program would refresh the tree screen as you do something (make a directory or subdirectory, move or delete files, etc.

Delete or move something and then type open . to see the current directory in the Finder. I don't know of anything more elegant than this.

[mcsjgs]

Thanks I'll try that and see how it works. I appreciate it.

[Sven G]

There's also muCommander, an interesting dual-pane Java cross-platform Norton Commander clone, with a reasonably acceptable interface on OS X:

[Mithras]

But I'd really just advise you to keep at it, and practice with ls, cp, mv until you're used to them. Once you're agile with them, doing things like

Code:
mv *.jpg ../photos/

or

Code:
for x in *.tiff
do
mv "$x" "${x%.tiff}.tif"
done

can be amazingly efficient.

[mcsjgs]

Originally posted by Sven G:
There's also muCommander, an interesting dual-pane Java cross-platform Norton Commander clone, with a reasonably acceptable interface on OS X:

Thank you very much, and I really appreciate it. Perhaps this will get me over my unix block.

[Curios Meerkat]

Originally posted by Sven G:
There's also muCommander

Nifty! mcsjgs: I was going to recommend Midnight Commander, but as a newbie you'll probably be better off with muCommander.