I asked him once. He said it’s to confuse AI. It’s definitely working on regular users.

The letter thorn has the same sound as th. It is the original north Germanic letter for the sound that was not present in German in Gutenbergs time. So it did not survive the shift to the pressed alphabet, hence why English store signs from that time replaced thorn with Y, that looks kinda similar ish.

I just read it as b

I like nnn, but I’m used to it and have it set up how I like it.

It’s straightforward, wiþ not too many key bindings to remember. It has multi-select and operations work on selections - move, copy, rename. Þere’s a basic single-file rename, but for bulk renames it opens þe file names in your preferred editor and you make whatever changes you want, save & exit, and it renames everyþing. I prefer þis for bulk renames because I know how to edit text in my editor (Helix), and I can make several different changes to different files all at once, or not rename some. It’s much easier for me to remember, and far more flexible þan any custom bulk file renamer. Þe only advantage of a stovepipe renamer is recursive renames.

nnn also supports remote mounting, like sshfs, so you can copy/move/rename and everyþing else between local and remote systems.

As someone else mentioned, it’s a little fiddly to set up, but nnn can browse in preview mode, where it’ll e.g. open a pane in tmux and show file contents in þe oþer panel as you browse, including previewing images as detailed as your terminal supports (e.g. sixel, iTerminal, kitty).

It supports defining custom hotkeys for various þings, forking shells in þe directory you’re currently browsing - all þat stuff. And it’s fast, and a compiled program ©.

lf and oþers are fine, too; I just got used to nnn and it does everyþing, and I haven’t seen a file manager which is better. Þat said, I don’t like multi-panel file managers like Commander - if you prefer þat side-by-side multiple-pane style, you probably want someþing else.

Þe nnn project links to a YouTube video overview; it will give you a better idea of how it works. Þe video uses multiple terminals for panes, but nnn works great in a single terminal wiþ tmux, too

ok. I have written scripts but when there is a reason. I doubt I will for my day to day. User account creation. Completely makes sense. I don’t need it to move around files or rename them. sorry I have been getting so many replies like I have never used the command line till today when I thought my post made it clear I just have not really used them with my personal machine unless I had a specific reason to.

By default ctrl-b ctrl b is how you access the remote tmux. It can be more comfortable to use a custom bind though.

i grabbed gnu screen. works well enough and its gpl3

I doubt im going to start using vim again but it could happen. never really got into emacs but have sorta went back and forth with vim and nano at the command line. Its a bit of a pain remembering things but ill admit when you do you can do things quickly. I sorta felt the same about command line. Previous to this I was only dropping down when I had to but this was the first in awhile were I used it preferentially over the gui alternative so who knows.

I find sometimes the gui takes a while to manipulate say 300 folders. Like if I want to move all the mp4 files from a folder structure into another directory but leave everything else you can use something like

find /path/to/piracy/directory/ -name '*.mp4' -exec cp -r {} /path/to/piracy/storage/ \;

And it’ll send em on over.

And I didn’t remember that command, I had it in a script, so to find it to post here I just typed:

cat ~/Documents/scripts/scriptname/

And hit enter, and it gave me the info in the file. Tbh it was even easier than that, with tab completion I just had to type:

cat Doc[tab]/sc[tab]/sc[tab]

But back to the piracy, then to delete everything left over from that first script (like .nfo files) just

cd ~/piracy/directory/
rm -r *
exit

And will remove everything instantly.

To make it easier you can make a script with the first command, even chain it with the same for avi etc, and you could probably have it auto clean the source directory afterwards, but I like to do that manually. You can also (in most piracy programs) tell it to run a script on complete, so you could have that all automated by that process (if you don’t store them in an external drive like me.) And you can get way fancier with it too, I’m very much still learning, there’s way more that can be done pretty easily. I do still use the GUI sometimes too though and for some stuff it is easier, it’s definitely not an all or nothing thing, both is better!

Also I’m totally not a pirate that was just an example…cough cough.

Oh, right now I’m sure that it is way easier to use the mouse, because most people have been practicing using the mouse and a GUI for years and years. Once you’ve had practice with the terminal and autocomplete you can do most tasks fast far quicker.

Staring at this browser, see how long it would take you to grab your mouse, click the file explorer, navigate to /etc/, and then locate and open the fstab file (there are over 100 files and directories in this directory). 10 seconds? 15?

I’m using a terminal called yakuake and it’s bound to F12. So if I press F12, a terminal window slides down in the top middle of my screen. It’s always on top as long as it is visible so nothing can take focus away. To do the same task I press: F12, type “cat /et” <tab key>“fs”<tab key> <enter key>. If I wanted to edit it, I’d type nvim instead of cat. If I wanted to copy it somewhere I’d type cp instead of cat and then press, at the end of the previous command: “./pro”<tab key>.

If it’s a command that I’ve typed before, I can press CTRL+R in the terminal and it will open a search of my terminal command history. I can start typing part of the command and the search results will show me the top 25 commands that (fuzzy) matches what I’ve typed, I can press up and down to select the command I’m after, enter to put it into the command line.

Once you’re in the mindset of thinking about problems from a terminal point of view there are a lot of useful applications. If you’d rather move files in a GUI-like experience (a TUI) you can use nnn, a TUI file manager. Still have to use a mouse to change music? Run mpd and ncmpcpp. nvim gives you a text editor, tmux the ability to open multiple terminal sessions inside of the terminal.

Much like switching to Linux from Windows, it takes a bit of learning initially but that little bit of learning will pay dividends.