Re: mc Digest, Vol 137, Issue 8

[chris glur <crglur gmail com>]

> * Debian Wheezy (armel, armhf)
....
> I'm asking if community need such builds and which hardware you use.

If I remember correctly: RPi didn't have mc installed - I had to fetch it.

Since others live without mc, I wonder what magic-utilitird *I'm* also
ignorant of ? The last one I found was `wily`.
Normally I've got 4 mc running, and 6 wily.

Like mc, wily is 'visual', but mostly mouse-driven; not for pianists.






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>    1. Re: HOW2 copy file-tree? (chris glur)
>    2. Re: HOW2 copy file-tree? (Eric Gillespie)
>    3. Midnight commander ARM architecture support (Andrey Tataranovich)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:03:03 +0200
> From: chris glur <crglur gmail com>
> To: Andrey Gursky <andrey gursky e-mail ua>
> Cc: mc gnome org
> Subject: Re: HOW2 copy file-tree?
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> Seems ok, but must first: `mkdir dst`
>
> Using mc, artificially hides such absurd syntax/requirements.
>
> Thanks,
> ==Chris Glur
>
> On 12/16/15, Andrey Gursky <andrey gursky e-mail ua> wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:26:52 +0200
> > chris glur <crglur gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > ... so, of course I usd mc to copy the file-tree,
> > > then I noticed that mc showed:--
> > > |/.dbus           |   4096|Dec  9 17:25|
> > > |/.gnuzilla       |   4096|Dec  9 17:25|
> > > |/.kde            |   4096|Dec  9 17:26|
> > > |/.links          |   4096|Dec 10 15:29|
> > > |/.mc             |   4096|Dec 12 12:04|
> > > |/.mozilla        |   4096|Dec  9 17:25|
> > > |/.pan2           |   4096|Dec 14 18:52|
> > > |/.wilybak        |   4096|Dec 11 19:08|
> > > |/.xine           |   4096|Dec  9 17:25|
> > > | .Xauthority     |    103|Dec  9 16:39|
> > > | .bash_history   |     43|Dec 11 11:07|
> > > | .blackboxrc     |   1425|Dec 11 17:52|
> > > | .servera~h.13990|     54|Dec  9 16:39|
> > > | .xinitrc        |    530|Dec  9 16:39|
> > > | KogiRootDir     |    931|Dec 12 12:04|
> > >
> > >    and then I remembered that instead of copying the whole tree, there
> > > was
> > > only
> > > a file: KogiRootDir     |    931.
> > >
> > > It seems that the problem is related to:
> > >   `ls /*` does NOT show <dotted Files> by default;
> > > whereas mc  is much better.
> > >
> > > Still I want to know how to do this simple task as a command-line.
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > to show really *a*ll files, you can use ls -a.
> >
> > To copy all files you can use:
> > cp -r src/* src/.[^.]* src/..?* dst/
> > which means all files not beginning with a dot and all files beginning
> > with
> > a dot but not a .. file (which is a parent directory) and all files
> > starting
> > with ..
> > By the way, you'd want to use -a argument to preserve file attributes
> > (mode,
> > ownership, timestamps, links,..).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andrey
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 08:06:19 +1300
> From: Eric Gillespie <brickviking gmail com>
> To: mc gnome org
> Subject: Re: HOW2 copy file-tree?
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> Even with mc, you may still have had to create a destination directory
> anyhow. But yes, in general I agree mc's pretty good at things like that.
>
> Regards, BrickViking
>
> On 18 December 2015 at 02:03, chris glur <crglur gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Seems ok, but must first: `mkdir dst`
> >
> > Using mc, artificially hides such absurd syntax/requirements.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ==Chris Glur
> >
> > On 12/16/15, Andrey Gursky <andrey gursky e-mail ua> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:26:52 +0200
> > > chris glur <crglur gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > ... so, of course I usd mc to copy the file-tree,
> > > > then I noticed that mc showed:--
> > > > |/.dbus           |   4096|Dec  9 17:25|
> > > > |/.gnuzilla       |   4096|Dec  9 17:25|
> > > > |/.kde            |   4096|Dec  9 17:26|
> > > > |/.links          |   4096|Dec 10 15:29|
> > > > |/.mc             |   4096|Dec 12 12:04|
> > > > |/.mozilla        |   4096|Dec  9 17:25|
> > > > |/.pan2           |   4096|Dec 14 18:52|
> > > > |/.wilybak        |   4096|Dec 11 19:08|
> > > > |/.xine           |   4096|Dec  9 17:25|
> > > > | .Xauthority     |    103|Dec  9 16:39|
> > > > | .bash_history   |     43|Dec 11 11:07|
> > > > | .blackboxrc     |   1425|Dec 11 17:52|
> > > > | .servera~h.13990|     54|Dec  9 16:39|
> > > > | .xinitrc        |    530|Dec  9 16:39|
> > > > | KogiRootDir     |    931|Dec 12 12:04|
> > > >
> > > >    and then I remembered that instead of copying the whole tree, there
> > was
> > > > only
> > > > a file: KogiRootDir     |    931.
> > > >
> > > > It seems that the problem is related to:
> > > >   `ls /*` does NOT show <dotted Files> by default;
> > > > whereas mc  is much better.
> > > >
> > > > Still I want to know how to do this simple task as a command-line.
> > >
> > > Hi Chris,
> > >
> > > to show really *a*ll files, you can use ls -a.
> > >
> > > To copy all files you can use:
> > > cp -r src/* src/.[^.]* src/..?* dst/
> > > which means all files not beginning with a dot and all files beginning
> > with
> > > a dot but not a .. file (which is a parent directory) and all files
> > starting
> > > with ..
> > > By the way, you'd want to use -a argument to preserve file attributes
> > (mode,
> > > ownership, timestamps, links,..).
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Andrey
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:34:17 +0300
> From: Andrey Tataranovich <tataranovich gmail com>
> To: Midnight Commander users <mc gnome org>, Midnight Commander
>       development     <mc-devel gnome org>
> Subject: Midnight commander ARM architecture support
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> Hello,
>
> I have prepared experimental Debian/Ubuntu MC 4.8.15 packages for ARM
> architectures:
>
>  * Debian Wheezy (armel, armhf)
>  * Debian Jessie (armel, armhf, arm64)
>  * Ubuntu Precise (armel, armhf)
>  * Ubuntu Trusty (armhf, arm64)
>
> To be able to test packages add to your sources.list
>
> deb http://www.tataranovich.com/debian jessie main
>
> and run apt-get update
>
> Or download packages from http://www.tataranovich.com/debian/pool/
>
> To verify GPG signature you need to install tataranovich-keyring
> package.
>
> I'm asking if community need such builds and which hardware you use.
>
> --
> WBR, Andrey Tataranovich
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