Moving Around, Basic File And Folder Commands

[00:02] (external link, opens in new tab) Okay, let's let's start moving around a bit and trying to get used to the structure navigating between directories. So, the first thing we want to do is we want to be able to go up and down just using the mouse arrows, just going up and down. If we go right and left in here, what I have is my command line. When I go to the right, I have my command line set up. So I can type something like cmd and I can enter and it basically enters a command line mode or I can do a ping and it will do a ping.

[00:37] (external link, opens in new tab) So I can do a cmd start and you we will get a command window. So I'll type exit. So whenever we want to get to the command line we can press right arrow. Now, we could change the options of Total Commander so that when we type something, we automatically type it to the command line. And if you start with Norton Commander, which I did not, then this might be what you want. But for me, I only want to use the command line every once in a while. And most of the time, I'll just work within the panes.

[01:08] (external link, opens in new tab) So, I'll press escape. If I want to move to the pane to the left, I'll just press tab. So, tab back again switches between the panes. If I wanted to open another pane, I can press CtrlT. And now I can move between the panes with control tab like this. Now let's say that in this tab I want to go to the labs folder. I press enter. If I press control tab here, in this tab I'm here at C. In this tab I'm in the labs folder here.

[01:41] (external link, opens in new tab) So I can also close the tab with Ctrl W. Now, sometimes you want multiple tabs, sometimes you don't. If I want to view the contents, let's start using the the different panes to do something. So, let's say I want to view the contents of the labs folder. First of all, I could press control and left arrow to see the contents of whatever is currently active. So, Ctrl+ left will actually navigate to the folder currently highlighted

[02:13] (external link, opens in new tab) In the current pane and then navigate to it on the left pane. So now, for example, if I go to this pane and I go to this folder and I press controll right arrow, I've navigated to an empty folder. And same here, come down, control, right arrow. Oh, there's something here. Control right arrow. Oh, there's something here. So, it's kind of like I can use it as a tree. Now let's say I want to go back to in the history. I can tab again and press alt and then left arrow to go back in history.

[02:50] (external link, opens in new tab) Okay. Now if I want to I always have the latest history here in all its glory. And this will actually be saved between sessions. So if I if I close Total Commander, it will actually remember all the last folders. So I'm I'm no rush to to to forget those things. Another thing is that when I when I work with something, I can now for example copy files. So if I wanted to let's say let's create two folders.

[03:23] (external link, opens in new tab) So, if I go into the C folder and I press F7 to create a new folder. Let's call it my new folder. Press enter. And now I'm going to navigate to it on the left. Controll left arrow. Now it's empty. Let's copy some files into the new folder from labs. So I go down to labs. Enter. Let's say I want to copy just the current file. Let's just say the SLN file. I'm going to press F5. and I get the Total Commander copy dialogue.

[03:56] (external link, opens in new tab) Now, by default, I can just press enter. But if I want to, if it's a complicated copy, I can also do a lot of different things like what do I want to copy? Do I only want to copy files of a specific type if it's a folder, verify copy. I can also set options why like should you ask me on things like overwriting should you skip hidden overwrite hidden and all that stuff. So it's it has all the options you usually want for long range copying.

[04:26] (external link, opens in new tab) For now I'm just going to press F5 and enter. And now you see that the file is copied. Now let's say I just want to view the contents of the file. If I press Ctrl Q and notice that I'm on the right pane right now. Ctrl Q. You can see now that the left pane has become a viewer. So I can see the content of the file that are currently highlighted. If I go down on the right pane here, I can see the contents of each file as I go through it.

[05:01] (external link, opens in new tab) And if it's a folder, I can see a summary of what's going on in that folder. Press Ctrl Q again. And now I don't see it. I could also highlight multiple files and copy them. For example, if I press space, it a file becomes highlighted. Space. Another space. Another one. Another one. Now all these files will be copied. F5. Copy these files. Now do I want to overwrite this? Sure. Let's overwrite.

[05:31] (external link, opens in new tab) Now four files have been copied. Now we what if we want to copy a folder? Same thing. F5 this folder. Now all the files and all the packages have been copied. Now I could for example space on a folder hit space and have multiple folders copied. F5 and yeah overwrite all. I'm just going to press A. You see that A has an underline here. Whenever you have an underline in Windows, it mean you can either press alt and that letter or just that letter directly if there's only one of them.

[06:07] (external link, opens in new tab) So if I press A right now, it is if as I click that button. Now what if we just want to copy everything? Ctrl A will select everything and then I can copy that. F5 override all. All now this is the second one cuz this is a hidden or a system object. So, I'm going to say, yeah, all of those two. Now, if I wanted to just move some things around, I can just press F6 instead of F5. So, I can move these things.

[06:38] (external link, opens in new tab) Let's actually make a new folder and say F7. And you notice that if I press F7 to create a new directory, just like clicking here, and I'm on something, it will give me the name of that something. So, I'm going to say moved move to that folder. go back in my tab and just select the SLN file and the so SEO file and press F6. And now I have these two files moved.

[07:10] (external link, opens in new tab) Now what about editing? If I press edit on user file and I press F4, you see F4 edit here. I can actually edit the file if it's editable in notepad or the default viewer. So let's actually try to edit the SLN file. So I have this SLN file and I can put a space here. I can put a break point. I can press a space. Sorry. Save it. Now if I view it with F3, you can see there's a new line in there or F4 to edit.

[07:41] (external link, opens in new tab) Now, if you want to have our own custom viewers, configuration, options, edit, and view will allow you to change the viewer to any viewer you want or the editor to any editor you want. So, it's fully fully selectable and extensible to whatever you would like. And usually, you would not want to use Notepad for that kind of stuff. Let's see. That should be pretty much it for the most basic of the basic things.

[08:16] (external link, opens in new tab) So, in the next videos, we're going to jump into zipping and unzipping things, archiving. We're also going to go into very cool selection modes for files, so we can easily find all the files we