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TXPLOR

Section: LOCAL COMMANDS (1L)
Updated: 24 Oct 2005
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NAME

txplor - File Manager -

 

SYNOPSYS

txplor [directory]

 

DESCRIPTION

If there is no command line argument, the current directory will be displayed.

To exit, press '/' followed by 'q'.

Default operation provides a hilighted directory tree pane on the left and a list of files from the hilighted directory in the pane on the right. The bottom, full width command pane shows the available commands for the hilighted/tagged directory/files in the above panes.

Entering a single keystroke will cause a search of the remaining (lower down) names for the first occurrence starting with that char.

To change the active pane, press <Tab> key or single-click with the mouse. Directory pane is active when only a directory is hilighted. The file list pane is active when a file and the directory containing the file are hilighted. Clicking the mouse in the non-active directory or file pane switches to that pane. The command pane is not selectable.

A single scrollbar supports both windows. The active pane responds to scrollbar motion.

Entering a '/' char displays a list of commands to perform on the hilighted/tagged directory/files. Select the desired command by pressing the capitalized or control (^ prefixed) key from the displayed list of commands. Each pane has its own specific set of commands.

In either pane, up/down, page-up/page-down and Home/End keys move the hilighted cursor by one line, by one screen or to top/bottom respectively.

In the directory pane, pressing either the <Enter> or right arrow keys will expand the directory tree for sub-directory containing directories (indicated by a directory name ending in a '/'). The left arrow key will collapse an hilighted expanded tree.

In the file-list pane, right and left arrow scroll the hilighted entry to show details which do not fit in the pane.

The <Enter> key or a mouse double-click on a previously hilighted file will view/execute the hilighted file by applying the 'x' shell script to it.

The 'x' shell script selects the desired operation to perform on the file using the secondary shell script 'mime_start', which interprets according to file extension. Both scripts must be in the search path. See the shell scripts

If the file is executable for the current user, but is found in the 'view' section of 'mime_start', it will be viewed. If the file is not executable and is not found in 'mime_start', it will be viewed with the default viewer, xedit, specified in 'mime_start'.

Right clicking on a hilighted file will pop up a 'sendto' menu which will send the hilighted file to the mouse specified menu option. See the accompanying doc for 'menu', 'sendto' and 'SendTo.menu' for details.

The following commands are available:

1.) DIR-Mode:

-Attribute
Change directory permissions (like chmod)
-Delete
Delete selected directory
-Filespec
Set file specification (reg. expression) e.g. *.[ch] for all *.c and *.h - Files
-Group
Change directory group ownership
-Log
Restart txplor with new root directory. A command-line history is supported. Use cursor up/down to select from the history. Use "F2" to switch to the hilighted directory.
-Makedir
Create new directory
-Owner
Change user ownership of selected directory
-Rename
Rename selected directory
-Showall
Show _all_ files in _all_ directories (Tab to exit Showall)
-Tag
Tag all files in selected directory
-Untag
Untag all files in selected directory
-eXecute
Execute a shell command
-^Filemode
Change view-mode for files: 
- filenames only
- name, attributes, links, size,
  modification time, symb. link
- name, attribute, inode, owner, group, symb. link
- change status-, access time, symb. link
-Tab Switch to file mode

2.) FILE-Mode

-Attribute
Change file permissions (like chmod)
-^Attribute
Change permissions of all tagged files. ? stands for: do not change attribute
-Copy
Copy file
-^K Copy
Copy all tagged files
-Delete
Delete selected file
-^Delete
Delete all tagged files
-Edit
Edit selected file with EDITOR (see ~/.txplorrc) or - if not defined - edx
-Filespec
Set file specification (reg. expression) e.g. *.[ch] for all *.c and *.h - Files
-Group
Change group ownership of selected file
-^Group
Change group ownership of all tagged files
-Hex
View selected file with HEXDUMP (see ~/.txplorrc), or - if not defined - hd / od -h
-Log
Restart txplor with new root directory. A command-line history is supported. Use cursor up/down to select from the history. Use "F2" to switch to the hilighted directory.
-Move
move selected file
-^N Move
Move all tagged files
-Owner
Change user ownership of selected file
-^Owner
Change user owndership of all tagged files
-Pipe
Pipe content of file to a command
-^Pipe
Pipe content of all tagged files to a command
-Rename
Rename selected file
-^Rename
Rename all tagged files
-Sort
Sort filelist by 
- access time
- change time
- extension
- group
- modification time
- name
- owner
- size
-Tag
Tag selected file
-^Tag
Tag all currently shown files
-Untag
Untag selected file
-^Untag
Untag all currently shown files
-View
View file with the pager defined in ~/.txplorrc or - if not defined - with (x)less
-eXecute
Execute a shell command
-e^Xecute
Execute shell command for all tagged files. The string {} is replaced by the current filename
-pathcopY
Copy selected file inclusive path
-pathcop^Y
Copy all tagged files inclusive path
-^Filemode
Switch view-mode for files: 
- filenames only
- name, attribute, links, size, modification time,
  symb. link
- name, attribute, inode, owner, group, symb. link
- changestatus-, access time, symb. link
-^L
Refresh Screen
-Space
Suppress screen-output while working
-Tab
Switch to DIR-mode

 

BUGS

To avoid problems with escape sequences on RS/6000 machines (telnet/rlogin) please set the environment variable ESCDELAY: 


ESCDELAY=1000
export ESCDELAY

 

AUTHOR

W. Bregulla (werner@frolix.han.de)
txplor revision by T. Loveall (loveall@iinet.com)

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSYS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
BUGS
AUTOR
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