vfu(1) VFU is console (text-mode) file manager for UNIX/Linux

SYNOPSIS

vfu [options]

DESCRIPTION

vfu has following features: 

 - Fast one-key commands
 - Extended completition and wildcard expansion
 - Directory tree with sizes (incl. sizes cache)
 - File-type colorization (extension and type)
 - Archives support (TAR, TGZ, BZ2, and many more)
 - Simple FTP support through archive-like interface
 - Internal text/hex file viewer and editor (optional)
 - Extensive user-defined external support/utils
 - Regular expressions selection and search
 - Multiple file masks
 - and much more...

OPTIONS

 -h
prints help for command line options

 -i
runs vfu in interactive mode (can be used with \-d)

 -d path
changes working directory to `path'

 -r
rebuild directory tree

 -t
view directory tree only
These options are for using vfu in partial non-interactive mode. 

 example: vfu -d /usr/local -i

CONFIGURATION

 vfu configuration is divided in two parts (files):

vfu.conf

This file contains configuration for external editor and pager, favorite directories, file-type colorization. This is plain text file which format is described below. vfu only reads vfu.conf, it never writes in it!

vfu.options

This file contains all Options/Toggles which can be changed from inside vfu --- Options menu. vfu.options is binary file and is overwritten on vfu exit or on change option event! Deleting this file will reset vfu toggles to default values. vfu.options is not portable between vfu versions!

Location of vfu.conf

vfu.conf can be placed as any of: 

 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.conf

 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.conf  (if $RC_PREFIX is exported)

 /etc/vfu.conf

 /usr/local/etc/vfu.conf

 /usr/local/vfu.conf

Other files location

All other files including vfu.options are placed in: 

 $HOME/.vfu/

 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/
What is "$RC_PREFIX" and why to use it? Some more information for this can be found in the CONFIG file which is supplied with vfu package.

VFU.CONF

 This is a sample copy of vfu.conf with appropriate comments:

DISTRIBUTION

 It is supposed that only source packages will be distributed. However sometimes binary packages will be released, but not often. VFU packages are named in this way: 

 vfu-X.xx.src.tgz
source package for version X.xx 

 vfu-X.xx.bin.platform.tgz
binary package for version X.xx for `platform' platform

examples: 

 vfu-4.00.src.tgz

 vfu-4.00.bin.linux.glibc.tgz

 vfu-4.00.bin.linux.libc5.tgz

 vfu-4.00.bin.dos.tgz
All packages are TAR+GZIP .tgz, bz2 and zip are available on request.

NOTE: Always check HISTORY document --- it often contains some usefull notes!

FILES

 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.conf
configuration, explained above 

 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.options
options, explained above 

 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.history
contains history lines 

 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.tree
contains directory tree

If you don't set $RC_PREFIX configuration files are: 

 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.conf
 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.options
 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.history
 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.tree

TODO

 see the TODO file

BUGS

unknown

AUTHOR

 Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski "Cade"
 <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
 http://cade.datamax.bg/
 http://cade.datamax.bg/vfu/

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