Hi, <br>Does anyone know of any easy to use front ends or scripts to allow easy management of files (mainly deleting and renaming files), I've had a look at midnight commander, but thats about it, and it's just a tad too complex for the person that needs to use it.<br><br>By the way, this is for a non-graphical display.<br><br>cheers<br><br>Rick<br><br>
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I've found Midnight Commander to be a very powerful tool - reminds me of the old Norton Commander days 
If you can get the user trained up in the basics (ie, navigating the filesystems, interacting with files), then it's probably going to be worth it in the long run.<br><br>I've looked at a couple of other ascii based file managers, and the ones I've seen all seem to be along the same levels of complexity as Midnight Commander. So, I can't really recommend any others as being easier to use.<br><br>However, if Midnight Commander is definitely not an option, then it should be possible to script something up. Do you want the user to be able to browse around the directory tree? (As far as their access permissions allow, that is.) How much "hand holding" do you want to give the user when it comes down to deleting or renaming files?<br><br>Also, do you have perl available on your server? If not, what shells have you got available? (sh, ksh, bash?)
If you can get the user trained up in the basics (ie, navigating the filesystems, interacting with files), then it's probably going to be worth it in the long run.<br><br>I've looked at a couple of other ascii based file managers, and the ones I've seen all seem to be along the same levels of complexity as Midnight Commander. So, I can't really recommend any others as being easier to use.<br><br>However, if Midnight Commander is definitely not an option, then it should be possible to script something up. Do you want the user to be able to browse around the directory tree? (As far as their access permissions allow, that is.) How much "hand holding" do you want to give the user when it comes down to deleting or renaming files?<br><br>Also, do you have perl available on your server? If not, what shells have you got available? (sh, ksh, bash?) - Thread starter
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Thanks for responding.<br><br>Midnight commander is just too feature packed in this case.<br>All I need to give him is the ability to browse the directory tree, copy, rename, and delete files.<br>The only problem is, because this is an application bug workaround (so non-permanent hopefully), is that the user has access to some application directories.<br>And I don't want him deleting any vital files.<br>The shell I need to use is ksh, I've looked at a perl script so that the user might use a web browser to do all this but due to tech issues with our PC's 'standard image' we can't point a browser at the machine in question.<br>There are a lot of solutions i've looked at, really, the best one for my situation would be a small menu driven shell script or something similar. (remeber a program called Xtree for DOS ? i think it was Xtree)<br><br>anyway<br>thanks again<br>Rick<br>
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Waha!<br><br>I've found just what I need<br><br>it's called Ytree<br><br><A HREF=" TARGET="_new"> a treat ! (AIX 4.3.3)<br><br>cheers<br><br>Rick<br>
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