mc Digest, Vol 137, Issue 8

chris glur crglur at gmail.com
Sun Dec 20 02:53:27 UTC 2015 

> * 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 at gmail.com>
> To: Andrey Gursky <andrey.gursky at e-mail.ua>
> Cc: mc at 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 at e-mail.ua> wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:26:52 +0200
>> chris glur <crglur at 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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> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 08:06:19 +1300
> From: Eric Gillespie <brickviking at gmail.com>
> To: mc at 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 at 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 at e-mail.ua> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:26:52 +0200
>> > chris glur <crglur at 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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> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:34:17 +0300
> From: Andrey Tataranovich <tataranovich at gmail.com>
> To: Midnight Commander users <mc at gnome.org>, Midnight Commander
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> 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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