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What's the point of terminal file managers (mc, ranger, nnn, etc)? (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Who are these for? People who use the terminal but don't like running shell commands?

OK sorry for throwing shade. If you use one of these, honestly, what features do you use that make it worthwhile?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Well, for schoolwork, I mount my Google Drive storage onto my ~/googledrive directory (where I store all of my schoolwork) and usually use mc to navigate. Although, I am quite comfortable with the terminal. Its just that I have a lot of subfolders and going to a specific subfolder in mc is usually faster than doing "cd ~/googledrive/subfolder-with-long-path".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How do you mount the GDrive ? What app allows you that ? I know gnome allows it but since moving to sway I gave up on it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Rsync can do this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Kseniya

I use rclone. The command I use to mount my GDrive is basically:

rclone mount "GoogleDrive:" ~/googledrive --vfs-cache-mode full --daemon

And then I could access it (almost) as if were a regular USB drive mounted onto my filesystem (by doing cd ~/googledrive). Only difference is that it is a bit slow, as none of the files ever get synced to the computer's hard drive (all changes are immediately uploaded to Google servers), and I cannot change the filesystem permissions (they are always a+rw for all of the files).

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