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START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * gnuit: (gnuit). GNU Interactive Tools END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY |
GNUIT is a package containing a file system browser, a
process viewer/killer and an ASCII/HEX file viewer. This is edition
2.9.4, for GNU Interactive Tools version 4.9.4.
| 1. Introduction | An introduction to GNUIT concepts. | |
| 2. Distributing GNU Interactive Tools | How to get the latest GNUIT distribution. | |
| 3. Using GNU Interactive Tools | How to use GNUIT. | |
| 4. Customizing GNU Interactive Tools | How to customize GNUIT. | |
| 5. GNU Interactive Tools limitations | Known GNUIT limitations. | |
| 6. GNU Interactive Tools bugs | How to report a bug. | |
| A. Copying This Manual | The GNU Free Documentation License. | |
| Key Index | An item for each standard GNUIT key sequence. | |
| Command Index | An item for each command name. | |
| Variable Index | An item for each documented variable. | |
| Concept Index | An item for each concept. | |
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GNUIT is a set of interactive tools. It contains an extensible
file system browser, an ascii/hex file viewer, a process viewer/killer
and some other related utilities and shell scripts. It can be used to
increase the speed and efficiency of most of the daily tasks such as
copying and moving files and directories, invoking editors, compressing
and uncompressing files, creating and expanding archives, compiling
programs, sending mail, etc. It looks nice, has colors (if the standard
ANSI color sequences are supported) and is user-friendly.
GNUIT runs on a wide variety of UNIX systems because it uses
the GNU Autoconf package to get system specific information.
Please refer to the PLATFORMS file included in the standard distribution
for a detailed list of systems on which GNUIT has been tested.
One of the main advantages of GNUIT is its flexibility. It is not
limited to a given set of commands. The configuration file can be
easily enhanced, allowing the user to add new commands or file
operations, depending on its needs or preferences.
GNUIT also provides a shell like command prompt, just to make sure
that the entire power of the UNIX shell commands is still there.
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GNUIT is "free software"; this means that everyone is free to use
it and free to redistribute it on certain conditions. GNUIT is not
in the public domain; it is copyrighted and there are restrictions on
its distribution, but these restrictions are designed to permit
everything that a good cooperating citizen would want to do. What is
not allowed is to try to prevent others from further sharing any version
of GNUIT that they might get from you. The precise conditions are
found in the GNU General Public License that comes with GNUIT and
also appears following this section.
The easiest way to get a copy of GNUIT is from someone else who has
it. You need not ask for our permission to do so, or tell any one else;
just copy it. If you have access to the Internet, you can get the
latest distribution version of GNUIT from host ‘ftp.gnu.org’
using anonymous login. See the file `/pub/gnu/GETTING.GNU.SOFTWARE' on
that host to find out about your options for copying and which files to
use.
You may also receive GNU Interactive Tools when you buy a
computer. Computer manufacturers are free to distribute copies on the
same terms that apply to everyone else. These terms require them to
give you the full sources, including whatever changes they may have
made, and to permit you to redistribute the GNU Interactive Tools
received from them under the usual terms of the General Public License.
In other words, the program must be free for you when you get it, not
just free for the manufacturer.
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The GNUIT package contains three interactive programs and a few
additional utilities. Here there is a description of each of them.
| 3.1 The GIT file system browser | A file system browser. | |
| 3.2 The GNUIT process viewer/killer | A process viewer/killer. | |
| 3.3 The GNUIT ASCII/HEX file viewer | An ASCII/HEX file viewer. | |
| 3.4 The GNUIT key sequences display utility | An utility for displaying key sequences. | |
| 3.5 The GNUIT wipe file utility | An utility for wiping files. | |
| 3.6 The GNUIT mount utility | A script for mounting file systems. | |
| 3.7 The GNUIT per file type action script | A per file type action script. | |
| 3.8 Unified archive unpacking | ||
| 3.9 The GIT recursive grep script | A recursive grep script. |
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gitfm is a file system browser with some shell like features
designed to make your work much easier and much efficient. It displays
one or two panels, each one containing a file system directory. You can
browse the directory tree with the usual cursor keys, pressing
ENTER when you want to enter or leave a directory and TAB
when you want to change the panels.
Under the two panels there is a shell like input line which you can use to type normal shell commands. The input line can handle an unlimited number of characters and keeps a history of typed commands (using the GNU history library).
Under the input line there is a status bar. You can see there the status of the currently executed command, the warnings and errors and you will be prompted if a decision has to be taken.
| 3.1.1 Key binding conventions | ||
| 3.1.2 Command line | The command line arguments. | |
| 3.1.3 Panel modes | How panels can look like. | |
| 3.1.4 Sorting methods | How files can be sorted in a panel. | |
| 3.1.5 Moving the cursor in the panel | How to move the cursor in the panel. | |
| 3.1.6 Selecting files | How to select (mark) files in a panel. | |
| 3.1.7 Incremental searching files in a panel | How to search a file name in a panel. | |
| 3.1.8 Using the input line | How to use the input line. Basic editing. | |
| 3.1.9 File operations | How to copy/move/delete/compress/… files. | |
| 3.1.10 Directory operations | How to operate with directories. | |
| 3.1.11 Compiling programs | How to compile programs. | |
| 3.1.12 Sending/receiving ascii/binary mail | How to send/receive ascii/binary mail. | |
| 3.1.13 Starting a sub-shell | How to start a sub-shell. | |
| 3.1.14 Using grep and recursive grep | How to use grep/recursive grep. | |
| 3.1.15 Locking your console | How to lock your console. | |
| 3.1.16 Refreshing the screen contents | How to refresh the screen contents. | |
| 3.1.17 Resetting your terminal | How to reset your terminal. | |
| 3.1.18 Mounting/unmounting file systems | How to mount/unmount a file system. | |
| 3.1.19 Getting some useful system information | How to get some useful system information. | |
| 3.1.20 How to look at the environment variables | ||
| 3.1.21 Viewing/killing processes | How to view/kill processes. | |
| 3.1.22 Synchronizing the file systems | How to synchronize your file systems. | |
| 3.1.23 Reading the documentation | How to read documentation. | |
| 3.1.24 Exiting GNU Interactive Tools | How to exit GNU Interactive Tools. | |
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gitfm now follows a new, easy to remember, scheme to bind commands
on keys. This is only a convention, if you define new key bindings you
may, or may not follow it.
All the file commands start with ^C. This prefix can be followed by some modifiers, in order to affect the default behavior of the given command. These modifiers are b and r.
b - this modifier specifies that the command will run in background:
^CM = CHMOD; chmod %s{New mode of %i: ,%m} %i;;;;y
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defines a command that changes the current selected files mode in foreground, while
^CbM = B-CHMOD; chmod %s{New mode of %i: ,%m} %i&;;;;y
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defines a background command that does the same thing.
r - this modifier specifies that the command will be run recursively:
^CrM = R-CHMOD; chmod -R %s{New mode of %i: ,} %i;;;;y
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defines a command that recursively changes the mode of the selected entries.
The b and r modifiers can be combined, the resulting command running recursively and in background:
^CbrM = B-R-CHMOD; chmod -R %s{New mode of %i: ,} %i&;;;;y
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You should also note that for some commands (like gzip) there is
no need for a non-recursive version. Running gzip recursively on
files is harmless. If there is a directory between these files,
gzip will recursively compress that directory, so you can use the
same key binding for recursively and non-recursively compressing. In
fact, it is a matter of selecting files or directories.
Unfortunately, we can't run chmod recursively trying to change
the mode of all the files in a directory to 0644 because that directory
might contain subdirectories and removing the execution permission from
them is a bad idea. So, in this case, we need separate commands.
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This is a brief description of the command line arguments.
-h print this help message
-v print the version number
-c use ANSI colors
-b don't use ANSI colors
-l don't use the last screen character
-p output final path at exit
The -p option can be used to make gitfm force bash (assuming that
you're using it as your shell) chdir to the last directory gitfm was in
before quitting. In order to do this, you need to invoke gitfm using this
function (put it into your .profile):
function g
{
gitfm -p $ 3> /tmp/gitfm.p.$$
if test -s /tmp/gitfm.p.$$; then
if test -d "`cat /tmp/gitfm.p.$$`"; then
cd "`cat /tmp/gitfm.p.$$`"
else
cd
fi
fi
rm -f /tmp/gitfm.p.$$
}
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This will not work if you suspend gitfm. Nothing bad will happen, just the chdir will not be performed.
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gitfm has three major modes of displaying the panels. In the first
(default) mode, two panels are displayed, each one using half of the
screen. In the second mode, only one panel uses the entire screen. In
the third mode, only the status bar and the input line are displayed,
both panels being hidden.
Briefly, a panel can use the entire screen or just half of it. Even when a panel is hidden, it still exists.
Users can switch between these three major modes as needed:
^X 0
Enlarges the other panel to use the entire screen. It also changes the minor mode to ‘Enable all’. The current panel will become invisible (‘enlarge-other-panel’). |
^X 1
Enlarges the current panel to use the entire screen. It also changes the minor mode to ‘Enable all’. The other panel will become invisible (‘enlarge-panel’). |
^X 2
Switches back to the two panel mode (‘two-panel-mode’). |
^O, ESC o
Switches to the tty mode (no panels on the screen) (‘tty-mode’). |
A panel displays the files and subdirectories in a directory. You can optionally specify some additional information about each entry (file, directory, …) to be displayed (a minor mode).
When using the full screen mode, all the minor modes here can be used. In half screen mode, the ‘panel-enable-all’ mode is not available.
These are the panel minor modes:
ESC e o
Display the entry owner and group (‘panel-enable-owner-group’). |
ESC e d
Display the entry date and time (‘panel-enable-date-time’). |
ESC e s
Display the entry size (‘panel-enable-size’). |
ESC e S
Display the entry size, scaled (e.g. ‘123M’) (‘panel-enable-abbrevsize’). |
ESC e m
Display the entry mode (‘panel-enable-mode’). |
ESC e f
Display the entry full name (‘panel-enable-full-name’). |
ESC e a
Display the entire information about file (‘panel-enable-all’). This mode is only available if the panel has been enlarged to use the entire screen with ‘enlarge-panel’ or ‘enlarge-other-panel’ (‘panel-enable-all’). |
There is another way of changing the panel minor modes:
^], ^[]
Switches to the next panel minor mode (‘panel-enable-next-mode’). |
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Entries in a panel can be sorted in different ways. These are the available options:
ESC s n
Display the panel entries sorted by their names (‘panel-sort-by-name’). |
ESC s e
Display the panel entries sorted by their extensions (‘panel-sort-by-extension’). |
ESC s s
Display the panel entries sorted by their sizes (‘panel-sort-by-size’). |
ESC s d
Display the panel entries sorted by their ‘last modified’ stamps (‘panel-sort-by-date’). |
ESC s m
Display the panel entries sorted by their modes (‘panel-sort-by-mode’). |
ESC s o i
Display the panel entries sorted by their owner ids (‘panel-sort-by-owner-id’). |
ESC s g i
Display the panel entries sorted by their group ids (‘panel-sort-by-group-id’). |
ESC s o n
Display the panel entries sorted by their owner names (‘panel-sort-by-owner-name’). |
ESC s g n
Display the panel entries sorted by their group names (‘panel-sort-by-group-name’). |
There is also another way to change the sort method:
ESC s u
Switch to the next panel sort method (‘panel-sort-next-method’). |
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Moving the cursor in the panel is very easy. If your keyboard has arrows, use them. If the arrow keys don't work (it might be due to a badly configured TERM environment variable), you can use the Emacs commands bindings as well.
UP, ^P
Move the cursor vertically up one entry (‘previous-line’). |
DOWN, ^N
Move the cursor vertically down one entry (‘next-line’). |
HOME, ESC <
Move the cursor on the first entry in the panel (‘beginning-of-panel’). |
END, ESC >
Move the cursor on the last entry in the panel (‘end-of-panel’). |
PGUP, ESC v
Move the cursor vertically down one page (‘scroll-down’). |
PGDOWN, ^V
Move the cursor vertically down one page (‘scroll-up’). |
ESC g
Scroll the panel entries to the left (‘horizontal-scroll-left’). |
ESC j
Scroll the panel entries to the right (‘horizontal-scroll-right’). |
^X P
In order to optimize the screen output, you can modify the scroll step (‘set-scroll-step’). This is the number of lines to try scrolling a panel when the cursor moves out. The ‘StartupScrollStep’ specifies the initial scroll step, but using ‘set-scroll-step’ you can dynamically change it. |
TAB, ^I, ^X o
Move the cursor in the other panel (‘other-panel’). |
^X P
Switch the two panels. This command works even when |
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INS, ^T, ^X \, ^\
Toggle the ‘selected’ flag of the current entry (‘select-entry’). |
^C s
Select (marks) all the files matching at least one pattern from a space separated list of shell patterns. Spaces and \s are allowed in the patterns but they have to be escaped with a \. The user will be prompted for a pattern to match against (‘select-files-matching-pattern’). |
^C u
Unselect (unmarks) all the files matching at least one pattern from a space separated list of shell patterns. Spaces and \s are allowed in the patterns but they have to be escaped with a \. The user will be prompted for a pattern to match against (‘unselect-files-matching-pattern’). |
ESC +
Select (marks) all the files having the same extension as the current file. If the current file name doesn't have an extension or starts with a dot, no files are selected (‘select-extension’). |
ESC -
Unselect (unmarks) all the files having the same extension as the current file. If the current file name doesn't have an extension or starts with a dot, no files are unselected (‘unselect-extension’). |
See section Selecting files matching patterns, for additional ways of selecting and unselecting files.
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Users sometime need to search a file in a panel, especially when the
panel contains a big number of entries. For that reason gitfm
provides an incremental search feature. Using forward and backward
incremental search, files can be very easy located. Wrapped incremental
search is also provided.
^S, ^Xs
Incremental search forward a file name in the current panel
(‘isearch-forward’). Pressing ^S or ^Xs again will
force |
^R, ^Xr
Incremental search backward a file name in the current panel
(‘isearch-backward’). Pressing ^R or ^Xr again will
force |
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The input line is one of the main methods used by gitfm to interact
with the user. All the answers the user should give in order to perform
some operation and all the shell like commands are built using it. So
here is a description of all the basic editing operations that the
‘input line’ provides. They are very much inspired from
Emacs, so Emacs users should have no problem using them.
| 3.1.8.1 Inserting Text | Inserting text by simply typing it. | |
| 3.1.8.2 Moving Point | How to move the cursor to the place where you want to change something. | |
| 3.1.8.3 Deleting and killing text | ||
| 3.1.8.4 Case conversion of words. | ||
| 3.1.8.5 Reusing recent input line arguments | ||
| 3.1.8.6 Commands to set the mark | ||
| 3.1.8.7 Reinserting recently killed text | ||
| 3.1.8.8 Selecting files matching patterns |
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Typing characters is the most usual way of inserting text into the input
line. Key sequences starting with printable ascii characters are not
allowed in gitfm so typing a for example results in inserting
a at the current point position. Of course, there are some other
ways of inserting text into the command line and here there is a
description of most of them.
ESC RET
Copy the current entry name into the input line at the current point position (‘entry-to-input-line’). |
ESC ESC RET
Copy the other panel path into the input line at the current point position (‘other-path-to-input-line’). |
^X ^I
Copy the names of all the selected entries into the input line at the current point position (‘selected-entries-to-input-line’). |
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^B, LEFT
Move the point backward one character (‘backward-char’). |
^F, RIGHT
Move the point forward one character (‘forward-char’). |
ESC b
Move the point one word backward (‘backward-word’). |
ESC f
Move the point one word forward (‘forward-word’). |
^A
Move the cursor at the beginning of the input line (‘beginning-of-line’). |
^E
Move the cursor at the end of the input line (‘end-of-line’). |
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DEL, ^D
Delete the character under the cursor (‘delete-char’). |
^H, BKSPC
Delete the character before the cursor (‘backward-delete-char’). |
ESC BKSPC
Delete backward one word (‘backward-kill-word’). |
ESC d
Delete forward one word (‘kill-word’). |
ESC k
Delete the entire line (‘kill-line’). |
^U
Delete all the characters between the beginning of the input line and the point (‘kill-to-beginning-of-line’). |
^K
Delete all the characters between the point and the end of the input line (‘kill-to-end-of-line’). |
ESC SPC
Delete all the spaces around the point, leaving only one space (‘just-one-space’). |
ESC \
Delete all the spaces around the point (‘delete-horizontal-space’). |
^W
Save the region between the point and the mark into the kill "ring" and then kills it (‘kill-region’). Note that there is no real kill-ring here. The so-called kill-ring has only one entry. |
ESC w
Save the region between the point and the mark without killing it (‘kill-ring-save’). |
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ESC l
Convert the following word to lower case, moving over. (‘downcase-word’). |
ESC u
Convert the following word to upper case, moving over. (‘upcase-word’). |
ESC c
Capitalize the following word, moving over. (‘capitalize-word’). |
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A separate history is kept for both built-in and user-defined commands. If you call a command that you have used before, you can re-edit a previously entered string in order to minimize the amount of characters needed to be typed for the new one. There is no limit on the number of strings that can be kept in the history.
ESC p
Walk backward through the history of previously entered strings (‘previous-history-element’). |
ESC n
Walk forward through the history of previously entered strings (‘next-history-element’). |
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^SPC
Set the mark at the current point position (‘set-mark’). |
^X ^X
Exchange the current point position with the mark one (‘exchange-point-and-mark’). |
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^Y
Reinsert a previously killed text at the current point position (‘yank’). |
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If the very first character in the input line is a `+', what comes after it is considered a (space separated) list of shell patterns, and all the files that match at least one pattern from that list will be marked as selected. An empty list of shell patterns (i.e. the `+' by itself) will cause all the files to be selected.
If the very first character in the input line is a `-', the space separated list of shell patterns that follows is used to unselect files. An empty list of shell patterns (i.e. the `-' by itself) will cause all the selected files to be unselected.
Finally, if the first and only character in the input line is a `*', then all the selected files will become unselected, and all the unselected files will become selected.
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| 3.1.9.1 Copying Files | How to copy files. | |
| 3.1.9.2 Moving Files | How to move files. | |
| 3.1.9.3 Creating Files | How to create new files. | |
| 3.1.9.4 Deleting Files | How to delete files. | |
| 3.1.9.5 Linking Files | How to create hard and symbolic links. | |
| 3.1.9.6 Renaming Files | How to rename files. | |
| 3.1.9.7 Splitting files into smaller parts | How to split files into smaller parts. | |
| 3.1.9.8 Packing files into the minimum number of bins | How to pack files in the min. number of bins. | |
| 3.1.9.9 Changing a file's mode, owner and group | How to change a file's mode, owner, group. | |
| 3.1.9.10 Editing Files | How to edit and create files. Default editor. | |
| 3.1.9.11 Viewing Files | How to view files. Default viewer. | |
| 3.1.9.12 Compressing Files | How to compress and decompress files. | |
| 3.1.9.13 Encoding Files | How to uuencode/uudecode, mpack/munpack a file. | |
| 3.1.9.14 Encrypting Files | How to encrypt/decrypt files with pgp. | |
| 3.1.9.15 Comparing Files | How to compare two files. | |
| 3.1.9.16 Spell Checking Files | How to spell check a file. | |
| 3.1.9.17 Printing Files | How to print files. | |
| 3.1.9.18 Wiping Files | How to wipe a file. | |
| 3.1.9.19 Searching Files | How to search a file. | |
| 3.1.9.20 Managing tar based archive files | How to manage tar based archive files. | |
| 3.1.9.21 Working with DPKG | How to work with DEB packages. | |
| 3.1.9.22 Installing and Uninstalling RPM packages | How to install and uninstall RPM packages. | |
| 3.1.9.23 File Types | How to figure out the file type. | |
| 3.1.9.24 Accessing MSDOS Files | How to access msdos floppies. | |
| 3.1.9.25 A different action for each file type | ||
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F5, ESC 5, ^C C
Copy the currently selected entries to the user supplied path (‘copy’). |
^C b C
Copy the currently selected entries to the user supplied path. The operation is performed in background (‘B-COPY’). |
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F6, ESC 6, ^C T
Move the currently selected entries to the user supplied path (‘move’). |
^C b T
Move the currently selected entries to the user supplied path. The operation is performed in background (‘B-MOVE’). |
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The easiest way to create a new file is to start an editor passing the file name as an argument. Most editors will try to create the file if the file doesn't exist. See section Editing Files, for more information.
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F8, ESC 8, ^C D
Delete the currently selected entries (‘delete’). |
^C b D
Delete the currently selected entries. The operation is performed in background (‘B-DELETE’). |
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^C H
Create a hard link from the current files to a user supplied file name (‘LINK’). |
^C b H
Create a hard link from the current files to a user supplied file name (‘B-LINK’). The action is performed in background. |
^C S
Create a symbolic link from the current files to a user supplied file name (‘SYMLINK’). |
^C b S
Create a symbolic link from the current files to a user supplied file name (‘B-SYMLINK’). The action is performed in background. |
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^C R
Rename the current file or directory with the user supplied name (‘RENAME’). |
^C b R
Rename the current file or directory with the user supplied name. The operation is performed in background (‘B-RENAME’). |
^C n d
Change the name of all the selected entries to lowercase. (‘name-downcase’). |
^C n u
Change the name of all the selected entries to uppercase. (‘name-upcase’). |
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^C /
Split the current file into several smaller files of a given size and named based on a given prefix (‘SPLIT’). |
^C b /
Split the current file into several smaller files of a given size and named based on a given prefix. The operation is performed in background (‘B-SPLIT’). |
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^C ~
Pack the files into the smallest number of bins. This is an approximation - the problem is NP-complete and no known algorithm can guarantee a solution better than ‘(11/9) * OPTIMAL + 4’. To make things even worse, for large files, there is no portable way to predict how many blocks the file system implementation will require for indirect blocks, directories, etc. So keep in mind that this is only an approximation. Bin packing can be useful when you want to put a bunch of files on floppies or zip disks and you want to optimize things a little bit (‘bin-packing’). ‘gitfm’ assumes that you want to pack all the files in the current directory - if there is any selected file in that directory it will be unselected first. Then ‘gitfm’ will ask for a bin size, and select the files that should go in the first bin. You are supposed to place those files in the first bin (e.g. a tar archive), remove them from the current directory, then run ‘bin-packing’ again, to obtain the list of the files that should go into the second bin, etc. |
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^C M
Change the mode of the currently selected entries (‘CHMOD’). |
^C b M
Change the mode of the currently selected entries. The operation is performed in background (‘B-CHMOD’). |
^C r M
Recursively change the modes of the selected entries if one of them is a directory (‘R-CHMOD’). |
^C b r M
Recursively change the modes of the selected entries if one of them is a directory. The operation is performed in background (‘B-R-CHMOD’). |
^C O
Change the owner of the currently selected entries (‘CHOWN’). |
^C b O
Change the owner of the currently selected entries. The operation is performed in background (‘B-CHOWN’). |
^C r O
Recursively change the owners of the selected entries if one of them is a directory (‘R-CHOWN’). |
^C b r O
Recursively change the owners of the selected entries if one of them is a directory. The operation is performed in background (‘B-R-CHOWN’). |
^C G
Change the group of the currently selected entries (‘CHGRP’). |
^C b G
Change the group of the currently selected entries. The operation is performed in background (‘B-CHGRP’). |
^C r G
Recursively change the groups of the selected entries if one of them is a directory (‘R-CHGRP’). |
^C b r G
Recursively change the groups of the selected entries if one of them is a directory. The operation is performed in background (‘B-R-CHGRP’). |
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F4, ESC 4
Call the default editor with the current file name as an argument (‘EDIT’). |
^X e
Call the default editor with the selected entry names as arguments (‘MULTIPLE-EDIT’). |
^X ^F
Create a new file by calling the default editor with the user supplied file name as an argument (‘FILE-CREATE’). |
^X 4 a
Call the default editor in order to edit the ‘ChangeLog’ file (‘CHANGE-LOG’). |
The default editor can be specified using the EDITOR or GNUIT_EDITOR environment variables. See section Environment Variables, for more information.
$GNUIT_EDITOR used to be called $GIT_EDITOR. The old name is still accepted for backwards-compatibility.
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F3, ESC 3
Call the default viewer ( |
^X v
Call the default pager ( |
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^C z
Compress the currently selected entries with |
^C b z
Compress the currently selected entries with |
^C Z
Uncompress the currently selected entries with |
^C b Z
Uncompress the currently selected entries with |
^C f Z
Uncompress the currently selected entries with |
^C b f Z
Uncompress the currently selected entries with |
^C .
Compress the currently selected entries with |
^C b .
Compress the currently selected entries with |
^C o
Uncompress the currently selected entries with |
^C b o
Uncompress the currently selected entries with |
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^C e
Encode the currently selected file (‘UUENCODE’). |
^C b e
Encode the currently selected file. The operation is performed in background (‘B-UUENCODE’). |
^C E
Decode the currently selected file (‘UUDECODE’). |
^C b E
Decode the currently selected file. The operation is performed in background (‘B-UUDECODE’). |
^C k
Encode the currently selected file using mpack (‘MIME-PACK’). |
^C b k
Encode the currently selected file using mpack. The operation is performed in background (‘B-MIME-PACK’). |
^C K
Decode the currently selected file using munpack (‘MIME-UNPACK’). |
^C b K
Decode the currently selected file using munpack. The operation is performed in background (‘B-MIME-UNPACK’). |
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^C p
Encrypt (using |
^C P
Decrypt (using |
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^C =
Compare (using |
^C ESC =
Compare (using |
^C B
Compare the current file with the other panel current file. A binary comparison is performed (‘compare’). |
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^X I
Run the |
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^C j
Print the selected files via |
^C J
Print the list of active printing jobs via |
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^C W
Call |
See section The GNUIT wipe file utility, for more information.
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ESC %
Search files on the file system, starting from the current directory (‘FIND’). |
ESC &
Use 'locate' to search files on the file system, starting from the current directory (‘LOCATE’). |
^X w
Locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command (‘WHEREIS’). |
^X W
Locate a command; display its pathname or alias (‘WHICH’). |
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^C a
Create a |
^C b a
Create a |
^C x
Create a compressed |
^C b x
Create a compressed |
^C -
Create a bzip2 compressed |
^C b -
Create a bzip2 compressed |
^C X
Expand the selected archives into the current directory. The utility used is selected based on the extension of the file (‘GENERIC-UNPACK’). |
^C b X
Expand the selected archives into the current directory. The utility used is based on the extension of the file. The operation is performed in background (‘B-GENERIC-UNPACK’). |
^C V
Expand the se |