Sent 15Nov00 to kinzler
+---------- Re: vshnu is nice ----------
| How does one copy files? Move files? Is there a wildcard expansion for
| the list of selected files? (if there isn't, 'mv ~/foo' doesn't work in
| chooser mode, as it expands to ( 'mv ~/foo bar1 bar2 bar3 ...' ), instead.

I still use cp(1) and mv(1) commands. They're short and flexible enough
for me to still want to use directly. But vshnu can facilitate their use.

If I want to run `mv bar1 bar2 bar3 ~/foo`,

I may choose bar* with /.^bar<Return>
(note that you enter a regular
expression here ala sed/vi/perl,
not a shell pattern) [handy mnemonic
here for "choose by regexp" =
slashdot, a favorite website :-]

then do the mv command with ;mv<Return>~/foo<Return>
(the chosen files are inserted
into the command between the two
segments, the latter of which may
often be empty)

Alternately, you could also choose ~/foo lastly and then just type
";mv<Return><Return>" in choose mode. To review your full current choose
list you can type <Ctrl-C> (again to get back).

Cheers, Steve

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