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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : LINUX: How do you select a group of files?
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
In Windoze, click the first file, then scroll to the last file you want in the group, press and hold SHIFT, and left-click. That's what I want to do inside any Linux file manager. I can CTRL-left-click each and every file, but that is painful with heaps of files all in one directory that you want to select NOT COUNTING other directories or files. Can someone point me to how you do that in Linux? Only came up, as I am upgrading one of my Linux servers to a bigger HDD, and copying all the files from the smaller HDD to the new bigger one, and CTRL-left-clicking each and every file, is a major pain in the bum.  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Volhout Guru  Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5091 |
Depends on settings and window manager in your distro. But common in linux for files: - select by mouse by holding left mouse button while moving mouse. - then press delete for text : - select by mouse by holding left mouse button while moving mouse. - paste with pressing mouse scroll wheel, -or- delete press delete key Edited 2021-06-24 20:31 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Rado Regular Member  Joined: 27/11/2020 Location: CroatiaPosts: 59 |
What window manager / file explorer are you using? Shift-clicking should work exactly as in Windows. Also, please don't click-drag to select multiple files and then press delete or backspace, you might end up removing those files. Alternatively, if you're comfortable with the command line, install "mc" (Midnight Commander), it's a clone of Norton Commander and can do many things without a mouse, including selecting multiple files. :) |
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panky Guru Joined: 02/10/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1114 |
Mint 20 with the included Nemo file manager, left click then shift left click works just the same as Windows. ... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it! |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Sorry chums, I forgot to mention distro - Bionic Puppy 8, 64-bit. It uses the ROX-filer file manager. I've read through it's help file, but there does not seem to be any support for left-click+SHIFT file selection. You can select all, invert selection, select by type and select if - the last one, I have not yet read up about how that works. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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hitsware2 Guru Joined: 03/08/2019 Location: United StatesPosts: 719 |
Only a thought ... One thing about Linux is the number of distros available . So ( if You wanted ) You could find one that best fits your present habits . It ' s easy to try live distros without installing . It seems to me that Debian is fairly Windows like . ( Mouse / files wise ) Edited 2021-06-25 12:28 by hitsware2 my site |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
Can't say I've heard of it! If I do what you're trying to do (in e.g. dolphin), it works along the lines you expected, so maybe install some other file manager(s). John |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5091 |
Hi Grogster, Yeah...ROX file manager. A little strange, but it is puppy's default.... There is a wiki on Puppylinux (this is one of the pages on ROX): wiki I think what you are looking for is:  The upper item shows why "shift" is not working... I think you have to drag around the file items, and then... Puppy is somewhat different. Used it for a long time (even ran my small business on it for 5 years) but that time is over (on pay check now). I still think it has it's value, but personally changed over to ubuntu (despite all the "sudo" stuff..). Mainly because in Puppy there was more focus in updating to the latest kernel, than updating to the "app store", so I had to fight constantly to keep my set of apps I needed for the business working. EDIT: I tried on an older version of puppy (I had a USB stick with live frugal install on it) and the trick is: select a set of files with the mouse in one window by dragging the mouse around the items (left button), the release left button, point at one of the items selected (they are highlighted), press left button again, and drag the whole selection to another window. Honestly, it is quite intuitive, as long as you remember to make the selection around the items, not pointing at them. Edited 2021-06-25 17:15 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
I rather like Puppy for what it does best - a rescue system for sorting out Windows boxes. :) Being able to run in ramdisk loaded from a USB stick and save back to the stick is a neat trick as it leaves the machine completely clean unless you deliberately write to it. I'm not as sure about it as a general purpose distro though. It's capable, but the progs used are selected to be small rather than to have a good range of functions. It tends to be a little incompatible with the world in general because of that. It's a great addition to the toolkit though and every Windows user should have a Puppy stick and learn to use it. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| mclout999 Guru Joined: 05/07/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 490 |
Windows like Distors Twister OS = Has several personalities that mimic Win MAC and other Distors Zorin OS is intended to be as Win-like as possible. Consider this article on Win like distros https://itsfoss.com/windows-like-linux-distributions/ |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
YES - that is it exactly!  If I 'Draw a box' over the files I want(without clicking any of them), they are all highlighted, so that is exactly what I need and needed to know.  I know Puppy is a limited distro, but remember that all I am using it for, is as a SAMBA server, so I don't need or WANT a huge distro for that very reason - it only needs to share files on the network, and have the most basic of features and functions to manage files etc. I also did not want to waste any SATA ports on a full install of something like Mint - I need all the SATA ports for hard-drives and storage volumes. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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