On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Masiar, Peter wrote:
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
From: "Masiar, Peter" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: File & Directory Hightlighting
Not sure if I understand your question.
IIUC, the problem you have is that after cherry-picking a
subset of (empty) directories, when you copy them,
selection is "lost" and you need to repeat the process (to
copy the same dirs to different destination), you need to
cherry-pick same dirs again. And you are afraid that
something can go wrong, you can miss some dirs and/or add
some wrong ones by mistake second time around. So you
would like the selection be "sticky" and not disappear
after the copy, ready to be used again and again.
Is my understanding correct?
Yes, that's EXACTLY what I want to do. Seems silly to have
to making the selection again. And I'd rather do it in mc if
possible. After all that's what mc is for, to make Linux
more user friendly. It also nice to have a visual indication
of the files/directories you have selected to copy - which
is not available from bash shell.
Keith
Of course you can use cp command for copying, but
two-panel mc seems simpler (to me). Copy is a copy,
regardless if you use cp for it, or mc command.
What I am missing?
BTW sorry for not responding to mailing list first time around.
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Peter Masiar, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) http://www.yale.edu/ehs
(203) 314-2719
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith
Roberts
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 12:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: File & Directory Hightlighting
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Masiar, Peter wrote:
To: Keith Roberts <[email protected]>
From: "Masiar, Peter" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: File & Directory Hightlighting
What about copying the subset of directories to be processed into a staging
area, then copying them from there to multiple destinations?
They are all empty, so staging area would take just a little space.
And no code changes are needed, it is just a usage pattern.
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Peter Masiar, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) http://www.yale.edu/ehs
(203) 314-2719
Can you do that with mc, or are you talking bash shell cp command ?
Keith
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith
Roberts
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: File & Directory Hightlighting
I'm having to copy empty sub-directories to several
different directories at once.
Would it be possible to have an option in mc, that would
allow one to keep the same set of files/directories
hightlighted after a copy has been done?
So multiple copies could then be done, without having to
keep selecting and highlighting the same set of files each
time a new copy is done?
Kind Regards,
Keith
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