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Questions and Answers

lndir(1) - create a shadow directory of symbolic links to another {oss}

mkdir(1) - make directories {oss}

locate(1) - find filenames quickly {oss}

readlink(1) - display target of symbolic link on standard output {oss}

ls(1) - list directory contents {oss}

ln(1) - make links {oss}

rmdir(1) - remove directories {oss}

find(1) - walk a file hierarchy {oss}

whatis(1) - describe what a command is {oss}

whereis(1) - locate programs {oss}

which(1) - locate a program file (or files) in the path {oss}

mktemp(1) - make temporary file name {oss}

mtree(8) - map a directory hierarchy {oss}

GIT - , the GNU Interactive Tools package, includes: an extensible file system browser, an ASCII/hex file viewer, a process viewer/killer, and other related utilities and shell scripts. {GPL,GNU}

Midnight Commander - is a user friendly and colorful Unix file manager and shell, useful to novice and guru alike. {GPL,GNU}

Fileutils - are: 'chgrp', 'chmod', 'chown', 'cp', 'dd', 'df', 'dir', 'dircolors', 'du', 'install', 'ln', 'ls', 'mkdir', 'mkfifo', 'mknod', 'mv', 'rm', 'rmdir', 'sync', 'touch', and 'vdir'. {GPL,GNU}

Findutils - includes 'find', which is frequently used both interactively and in shell scripts to find files which match certain criteria and perform arbitrary operations on them. Also included are 'locate', which scans a database for file names that match a pattern {GPL,GNU}

stmpclean-0.1 - Remove old files from temporary directories

ja-ls-0.4 - Japanized ls

kcd-5.0.3 - Change directory in full-screen visual mode

rox-base-1.0.2 - Resources needed by several ROX desktop applications

rox-session-0.1.13 - A session manager for the ROX desktop

vide-0.5 - Simple Gtk+ based filemanager with vi keybindings

gnomefind-1.0.1_1 - Graphical version of the GNU "find" utility

nautilus-1.0.6_5 - GNOME file manager and graphical shell developed by Eazel

endeavour-1.13.0 - A graphical file manager and image viewer aimed towards new users

fsv-0.9 - 3D filesystem visualizer

xnc-4.4.5 - File manager for X Window

deleted-0.2 - Daemon for garbdge collection in directories with temporary files

tree-1.3_1 - Display a tree-view of directories with optional color or HTML output

systemg-1.0.1 - UNIX File Manager based on the design of the Macintosh System 7

gentoo-0.11.23 - Gtk+ based, file manager inspired by DirectoryOpus

rox-1.2.0 - A simple and easy to use graphical file manager

ja-binder-1.3 - A file manager on X window with TkStep

gnomemc-4.5.55 - A windows explorer work-a-like for the GNOME Desktop Environment

binder-1.3 - A file manager on X window with TkStep

sixpack-0.99.001216 - The SIXPACK Bibliography and Reference Manager

cfm-0.5_1 - Quick Perl/Tk file manager with support for regular expressions

p5-XML-Directory-0.84 - Returns a content of directory as XML

pyfind-0.9.0 - A file-find utility for Gnome loosely modeled after the Windoze utility

worker-2.4.0 - X11 File Manager based on Directory Opus

p5-Stat-lsMode-0.50 - Stat::lsMode - format file modes like the ls -l command does

dim-1.1 - A directory lister which sorts the file list in 2D

tdir-1.66 - Advanced file directory display utility

dirtree-1.2.0 - A command line tool for displaying directory trees

Tk-FileDialog-1.3 - Tk::FileDialog - A file selector dialog for perl/Tk

p5-File-FTS-0.01 - Perl extension for File Traversing System

colorls-3.4 - An ls that can use color to display file attributes

xbmbrowser-5.1 - View complete directories of X bitmaps and X pixmaps. [X]

git-4.3.20 - GNU Interactive Tools - a file system browser for UNIX systems

gnuls-4.0 - GNU colorized 'ls'

mmv-1.01b - move/copy/append/link multiple files with sophisticated wildcard matching

sls-1.00 - list information about file(s) and directories

ytree-1.74 - DOS-XTREE(tm) look-a-like file manager

asfiles-1.0 - X11 file manager. Dockable in WindowMaker. [X]

dfm-0.99.9 - OS/2 - like Desktop-File-Manager for X Window System

ezfm-0.4.3 - EZWGL-based file manager for X Window System

offix-files-2.4 - File bar from OffiX

xfm-1.4.3 - The X File Manager

offix-trash-2.4 - Trash from OffiX

lc - An "ls" program {oss}

dir-lib.pch - Patch to Volume9 gwyn-dir-lib {oss}

pd - an alternative to "ls", {oss}

undel2/part03 - MIT Athena delete/undelete programs, release 2 {oss}

setd.pch1 - setd V1.7 -- Set Directory and Mark Utilities, Patch01 {oss}

vtree - Visual directory browser {oss}

fullpath-1.1.0 - reformat "ls -lR" output to a more useful form, {oss}

rename-files - Rename multiple files {oss}

xtree - an ls-like tool, similar to DOS's vtree, {oss}

mmv - Safely rename wildcarded files {oss}

setd - setd V1.7 -- Set Directory and Mark Utilities {oss}

sls - SLS, a program like "ls -l" with more control {oss}

classify - compare groups of files and classify them {oss}

namei - A program to trace through symlinks {oss}

dtree - Directory heirarchy display program for 4.2 {oss}

amiga - Amgia file browser {oss}

undel - MIT Athena delete/undelete programs {oss}

fprintls - a fingerprinting version of ls, V0.75, {oss}

append - Allow additions to 'protected' directories {oss}

rel - find files relevant to boolean search parameters, {oss}

mmv.pch - CRITICAL patch to MMV {oss}

hier - Directory hiearchy scanner {oss}

utree - screen oriented filesystem utility (V3.03b-um) {oss}

unrm.rm - Rm and unrm programs {oss}

maint - full-screen file/dir maintenance tool {oss}

dirstack.csh - CSH tools for directory stacks {oss}

rh - Find files using C-style expressions {oss}

rmsecure - Source for a safe "rm" (csh, BSD only) {oss}

ils - interactive "ls" and browser {oss}

browser - Amiga file browser {oss}

NDir - Console tool to display directory's contents {GPL}

wcd {GPL}

Cooledit - Full featured text editor for the X Window System {x,GPL}

xstepfiles - Simple file manager for X {x,GPL}

xap - X application panel and simple file manager {x,GPL}

xdiskusage - Graphical display of disk usage {x,GPL}

TkFileman - A Simple file manager written in Tcl/Tk {x,GPL}

Xplore {x,GPL}

gentoo - Two-pane filemanager using GTK+, 100% GUI configurable {x,GPL}

X Northern Captain - Filemanager for X Windows {x,GPL}

WMFinder - Easy to use file manager for WindowMaker {x,GPL}

site-dater.pl - Generates a table of web links within a local hierarchy sorted by date. {PD}

TriDComm - TriDComm is a free 3D file manager for windows [win9x/ME/NT4/2K] {nc}

F - Lightweight file browser for GNOME. [X] {LGPL}

FileRunner - simple and efficient filemanager {x,free to use but restricted}

X-Files {x,Shareware}

X-Plorer - Unix clone of the Windows95 filemanager [X] {GPL}

ocsexplorer - ocsexplorer is an intranet file explorer for linux {GPL}

Thumb - Configurable image directory thumbnail viewer {GPL}

explorer-0.72.tgz - file manager with same look and feel as Windows95(tm)

explorer-0.72.tgz - file manager with same look and feel as Windows95(tm)

Applications and Utilities

mkdir (2) - make a directory file {oss}

rmdir (2) - remove a directory file {oss}

chdir fchdir (2) - change current working directory {oss}

getcwd getwd (3) - get working directory pathname {oss}

opendir readdir telldir seekdir rewinddir closedir dirfd (3) - directory operations {oss}

scandir alphasort (3) - scan a directory {oss}

mktemp mkdtemp mkstemp (3) - make temporary file name (unique) {oss}

realpath (3) - returns the canonicalized absolute pathname {oss}

fts (3) - traverse a file hierarchy {oss}

chroot (2) - change root directory {oss}

getdirentries (2) - get directory entries in a filesystem independent format {oss}

mod_index_rss-0.10 - Apache module to provides RSS output for directories

ruby-fileutils-2 - A file & directory manipulation library for Ruby

p5-File-Remove-0.20 - Perl5 module to easily removes files and directories

Getdcwd.C - Get current working directory for any given drive {oss,msdos}

Filelist.H,Filelist.C - Read a directory into a linked list {oss,msdos}

Pushdir.C - Stack-oriented CHDIR functions {oss,msdos}

Mkdirs.C - Build directory tree (deep mkdir()) {oss,msdos}

Dirport.How, Dirport.h, dirport.c - portable directory code for various PC compilers {oss}

Existsx.C - POSIX-compliant functions to search paths for files {oss}

Fopenx.C - Open files using EXISTSX.C path conventions {oss}

Cdir.C - Like DOS CHDIR except changes drives as well {oss}

Filcount.C - Count files/directories {oss}

Lsd.C - DIR enhanced work-alike {oss}

Rm_All.C - Remove all files - now supports recursion {oss}

Treedir.C - Recursive directory lister {oss}

Where.C - Search for a file {oss}

T_Clean.Doc - Clean disks/directories by removing old files {oss}

Stat.H - Posix compliant sys/stat additions {oss}

dirent.h, posixdir.C, posix_ls.C - Bob Stout's POSIX compliant directory functions & related files for MSDOS {oss}

Dirmask.C - Complex pattern matching (calls xstrcmp()) {oss}

Mkdirs.C - Build directory tree (deep mkdir()) {oss,msdos}

Pushdir.C - Stack-oriented CHDIR functions {oss,msdos}

Filelist.H,Filelist.C - Read a directory into a linked list {oss,msdos}

Getdcwd.C - Get current working directory for any given drive {oss,msdos}

gwyn-dir-lib - New directory-access library {oss}

File::Recurse - Lets you perform some operation throughout an entire directory tree. Part of the File::Tools module. [Perl] {oss}

Tie::Dir - Reading directories via a tied hash. Lets you access and modify the access and modification times of files. See tie(), described in ./docs/manual/html/perltie.html. [Perl] {oss}

File::Listing - Parses a directory listing. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

DirHandle - Treat directory handles as objects. The DirHandle module is bundled with Perl.

Cwd - Three functions for determining the current working directory. One is fast but flaky, one is slow and safe, one is juuust right. The Cwd module is bundled with Perl.

Libraries and Functions

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