Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

2022-10-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 10:10:52 +0200, Arve Barsnes wrote: > >> This is probably a case of Dolphin not being a good tool, unless it >> has a built-in command-line? >> $ mv newfile oldfile >> will overwrite the old file in place with the new file with the name >> of the old file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

2022-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 17:19:09 +0200, Ramon Fischer wrote: > And if you like Bash brace expansions; this one is sometimes quicker, > than tab-completion and removing characters: > >     $ mv file.txt{,.bak} >     file.txt.bak >     $ mv file.txt,{bak,img} >     file.txt.img >     $ mv

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

2022-10-06 Thread Ramon Fischer
I corrected some typos. This one is syntactically correct:     $ mv file.txt{,.bak}     file.txt.bak     $ mv file.txt.{bak,img}     file.txt.img     $ mv file.txt{.img,}     file.txt -Ramon On 06/10/2022 17:19, Ramon Fischer wrote: And if you like Bash brace expansions; this one is sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

2022-10-06 Thread Ramon Fischer
And if you like Bash brace expansions; this one is sometimes quicker, than tab-completion and removing characters:     $ mv file.txt{,.bak}     file.txt.bak     $ mv file.txt,{bak,img}     file.txt.img     $ mv file.txt{img,}     file.txt -Ramon On 06/10/2022 14:45, Neil Bothwick wrote: This

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

2022-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 10:10:52 +0200, Arve Barsnes wrote: > This is probably a case of Dolphin not being a good tool, unless it > has a built-in command-line? > $ mv newfile oldfile > will overwrite the old file in place with the new file with the name > of the old file. And tab-completion makes

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

2022-10-06 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 at 06:40, Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > This may not exist. If not, oh well. Sometimes when I'm moving files > with Dolphin, I need a added feature. I tend to use split panes when I > copy or move files. Quite often, I want to move files from one location > to another and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

2022-10-06 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 6 October 2022 08:52:04 BST Wol wrote: > On 06/10/2022 08:33, Michael wrote: > > On Thursday, 6 October 2022 05:39:59 BST Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> This may not exist. If not, oh well. Sometimes when I'm moving files > >> with Dolphin, I need a added feature. I tend to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

2022-10-06 Thread Wol
On 06/10/2022 08:33, Michael wrote: On Thursday, 6 October 2022 05:39:59 BST Dale wrote: Howdy, This may not exist. If not, oh well. Sometimes when I'm moving files with Dolphin, I need a added feature. I tend to use split panes when I copy or move files. Quite often, I want to move files

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

2022-10-06 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 6 October 2022 05:39:59 BST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > This may not exist. If not, oh well. Sometimes when I'm moving files > with Dolphin, I need a added feature. I tend to use split panes when I > copy or move files. Quite often, I want to move files from one location > to