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    [–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

    I need a shell/plugin/tool/whatever that always shows me the content of the current dir in a little popup or something.

    Anything I do in the shell is like cd this, ls, cd there, ls *, I feel like a have the navigational awareness of a amnesiac goldfish

    [–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

    A window, you say!?

    [–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

    You probably want rangerfm or vifm. They use miller columns for to show you your surrounding context.

    [–] fushuan@lemm.ee 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Put this in bashrc or whatever flavour of shells's bashrc you use:

    function cs () { cd "$@" && ls }

    I didnt remember the function sintax of bash so I just copied it from SO.

    [–] Artyom@lemm.ee 19 points 3 days ago (1 children) 
    cs () {
    cd $1;
    ls ${@:2}
}

    You (probably) only want to pass the first argument to cd, this'll send the rest to ls.

    [–] ka1ikasan@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

    Did that years ago, just called it cds. I also have an "up" command which is an alias to "cds ..". Oh, and I have a "setup server_name" they copy all my aliases to a server and create an alias that allow me to "ssh -A server_name" using only server_name.

    [–] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

    Alternatively, you could use a TUI file manager. Once you get the navigation down you can manage things pretty quickly. Especially with ones that have options for dual directory layouts, like Midnight Commander or vifm.

    [–] Prime 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    It is called windows 2000 explorer and it's great for file operations :) In Linux i have yet to find a really good replacement ;(

    [–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Try Dolphin. Press F4 to open the terminal view. It stays in dync with the gui so if you use cd in the terminal, the contents of the new folder will be shown.

    [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

    That sounds really cool but I spent so much time making things look pretty …

    [–] marx2k@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

    What's a GUI?

    [–] bappity@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

    that, or you have to make ABSOLUTELY SURE that you haven't accidentally pressed a button on your keyboard that has inevitably resulted in the total destruction of the directory contents