lfm A simple but powerful file manager for the UNIX console.
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A simple but powerful file manager for the UNIX console. lfm is a simple but powerful file manager for the UNIX console. The application has been developed with the ol' good Midnight Commander as model.Requirements:lfm is written in Python_ and need curses module. It needs Python v2.0 or maybe higher, it won't work with v1.5. Since version 0.90, *lfm* needs ncurses >= v5.x because of itshandling of terminal resizing.All modern UNIX flavours (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc) will run it without problems. Installation:lfm is very easy to install, just keep next steps:1. Download sources2. Uncompress file3. Build:python setup.py build4. Install, as root::python setup.py install5. Run it:lfmTo let 'lfm' to change to panel's current directory after quiting with q, Q or F10 keys, you must add next code to /etc/bashrc or to your ~/.bashrc:lfm(){ /usr/bin/lfm "$*" # type here full path to lfm script LFMPATHFILE=/tmp/lfm-$$.path cd "`cat $LFMPATHFILE`" rm -f $LFMPATHFILE}If you don't use bash or csh shell, above lines must be different. What's New in This Release: · Ctrl-H now shows or hides dot files. Ctrl-Y displays directories' history. · It's now posible to move the cursor in the non-active pane, and this behavior can be toggled with Ctrl-W. Support was added for .7z compressed files. · The F2 and F12 keys were swapped, so now F2 renames files and F12 shows the file menu. · New key shortcuts were added in dialogs. · Cursor movement was sped up. · Lots of code cleaning and refactoring were done and some bugs were fixed.

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