Looking for a GUI File Manager that displays the linux commands

dwightshrute · 2017-06-21 02:41:10

Hey I'm looking GUI file manager that displays the linux commands it's using realtime like gparted does. This would really help me out learn the command line when I can see it hands on in practical usage. I did a Google search on this but nothing really came up. Any help would be appreciated.

buntolo · 2017-06-21 07:13:27

What do you need exactly? GParted is a program which shows the executed commands when operating with partitions/whatever.

Do you want your file manager to show every running command? You can use htop to show running commands/processes.

You may create a workspace containing only fullscreen htop (or similar) configured to show only commands. You may also be interestedd in conky.

V1del · 2017-06-21 07:29:12

It's unlikely that file managers use the "commands" to do their operations, they are more likely to use provided API for this.

dwightshrute · 2017-06-22 04:27:01

Thanks guys, it's okay I'll learn the command line the old fashioned way. I just thought it would be cool if there was something like that. I remember a friend of mine used FreeBSD and he had a file mananger like that, it was called Rodent. But when I tried compiling it for linux it didn't work, It hasn't been updated for several years now. And thank you Buntolo, I will look into htop, I didn't know it also displayed commands.

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stanna · 2017-06-22 08:55:56

have you tried looking in AUR for Rodent? - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rodent/

buntolo · 2017-06-22 11:19:24

This is how I set my htop: http://i.imgur.com/SJR9hw7.png

You can heavily customise it, for example you can remove everything but command column.
You can hit F2 for Setup, go down to select Columns under Setup column (or click with the mouse) and then remove from Active Columns what you don't want: http://i.imgur.com/T5p7Opg.png

Trilby · 2017-06-22 11:21:04

buntolo, htop has nothing to do with the OPs actual question. He wants to learn about coreutils or file-management commands in the shell.

dwightshrute, V1del already hit the most important point here: most gui file managers just don't use the coreutils programs. The analogy to gparted is a good one, but it actually highlights the difference. I'll add arandr in here too. Both gparted and arandr are (essentially) wrappers each to a single command line tool that can have very elaborate options/parameters. By using gparted, you can see the one single elaboarte command line options for parted that would need to be used to get the same result. Arandr does the same for xrandr: you create a screen layout in arandr and it tells you the long command line needed to get xrandr to do the same thing.

GUI file managers are quite different. You are not tweaking bits of the gui to configure a single process that you then run at once - you are actually interacting with the filesystem in many separate tiny interactions. Even if the GUI file manager showed you equivalent commands, I just don't think it'd be as useful for learning as gparted and arandr can be. If you do want to learn some shell commands, I'd strongly suggest you start here: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide

As for file management, `cd`, `ls`, `mv`, `cp`, and `rm` will cover a vast majority of what a file manager would do (and perhaps something like `xdg-open` if you want the equivalent of clicking on a file to open/run it - though I'd just call the actual program to open it myself).

seth · 2017-06-22 19:43:27

Try one of those https://www.google.com/search?q=unix+ch … f&tbm=isch

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Looking for a GUI File Manager that displays the linux commands

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