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You can be faster at renaming files and changing file permissions in dired buffers

tonyaldon · 2022-12-12 16:24
SlowValue · 2022-12-12 21:34
Nice video, TIL how to move files with wdired, thanks. Btw. instead of this shell loop, you could utilize `watch`, e.g. `watch tree` or `watch -n 0.1 date +%k:%M:%S:%N`
tonyaldon · 2022-12-13 07:36
I'm glad you like the video. Thanks for pointing out the `watch` utility. Although `watch` doesn't look for file changes `watch tree` would have made the visual effect I wanted in the video :) We could also have used `inotifywait` (still using a loop): while inotifywait -r . ; do clear && tree ; done