YTREE(1L)

💖 NAME 💖

ytree — bestie, it's a File Manager 🗂️✨ and it's iconic, periodt.

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🌸 SYNOPSYS 🌸

ytree [archiv file|directory]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so listen 👂 if you don't pass any command line argument at all, ytree just uses the current directory. no cap, it just does. 🫶

Following commands are available:

🎀 1.) DIR-Modus 🎀

• -Attribute — change directory permissions (like chmod) 💅
• -Delete — delete the selected directory 🗑️
• -Filespec — set file specification (reg. expression), e.g. *.[ch] for all *.c and *.h files 🌟
• -Group — change directory group ownership 👑
• -Log — restart ytree with a new root directory/archiv file 🔄
• -Makedir — create a new directory ✨
• -Owner — change user ownership of the selected directory 🫶
• -Rename — rename the selected directory ✏️
• -Showall — show all files in all directories 👀
• -Tag — tag all files in the selected directory 🏷️
• -Untag — untag all files in the selected directory 🙈
• -eXecute — execute a shell command 💻
• -^Filemode — change viewmodus for files:
  • filenames only
  • name, attributes, links, size, modification time, symb. link
  • name, attribute, inode, owner, group, symb. link
  • change status-, access time, symb. link
• -Return — switch to file modus 🔁
• -^Quit QuitTo — if you exit ytree with ^Q, the last selected directory becomes your current working directory. This feature only works if you start ytree with this bash-function (copy this to your ~/.bashrc):

function yt
{
  echo cd $PWD >~/.ytree-$$.chdir
  /usr/bin/ytree $1 $2 $3 $4 $5
  source ~/.ytree-$$.chdir
  rm ~/.ytree-$$.chdir
}

🧚 2.) FILE-Modus 🧚

• -Attribute — change file permissions (like chmod) 💅
• -^Attribute — change permissions of all tagged files. ? stands for: do not change attribute 🤔
• -Copy — copy file 📋
• -^K Copy — copy all tagged files 📚
• -Delete — delete selected file 🗑️
• -^Delete — delete all tagged files 💀
• -Edit — edit selected file with EDITOR (see ~/.ytree) or — if not defined — vi ✍️
• -Filespec — set file specification (reg. expression), e.g. *.[ch] for all *.c and *.h files 🌟
• -Group — change group ownership of selected file 👑
• -^Group — change group ownership of all tagged files 👑👑
• -Hex — view selected file with HEXDUMP (see ~/.ytree), or — if not defined — hd / od -h 🔢
• -Log — restart ytree with a new root directory/archive file 🔄
• -Move — move selected file 🚚
• -^N Move — move all tagged files 🚚🚚
• -Owner — change user ownership of selected file 🫶
• -^Owner — change user ownership of all tagged files 🫶🫶
• -Pipe — pipe content of file to a command 🚰
• -^Pipe — pipe content of all tagged files to a command 🚰🚰
• -Rename — rename selected file ✏️
• -^Rename — rename all tagged files ✏️✏️
• -untag ^Search — untag files by using an external program (e.g. grep) 🔍
• -Sort — sort filelist by:
  • access time
  • change time
  • extension
  • group
  • modification time
  • name
  • owner
  • size
• -Tag — tag selected file 🏷️
• -^Tag — tag all currently shown files 🏷️🏷️
• -Untag — untag selected file 🙈
• -^Untag — untag all currently shown files 🙈🙈
• -View — view file with the pager defined in ~/.ytree or — if not defined — with pg -cen 👓
• -eXecute — execute a shell command 💻
• -e^Xecute — execute shell command for all tagged files. The string {} is replaced by the current filename 💻✨
• -pathcopY — copy selected file inclusive path 📁
• -pathcop^Y — copy all tagged files inclusive path 📁📁
• -^Filemode — switch view-modus for files:
  • filenames only
  • name, attribute, links, size, modification time, symb. link
  • name, attribute, inode, owner, group, symb. link
  • changestatus-, access time, symb. link
• -^L — refresh Screen 🔄
• -Space — suppress screen-output while working 🤫
• -Return — switch to expand modus 🔁

🌈 3.) ARCHIV-DIR-Modus 🌈

• -Filespec — set file specification (reg. expression), e.g. *.[ch] for all *.c and *.h files 🌟
• -Log — restart ytree with a new root directory/archive file 🔄
• -Showall — show all files in all directories 👀
• -Tag — tag all files in selected directory 🏷️
• -Untag — untag all files in selected directory 🙈
• -eXecute — execute a shell command 💻
• -^Filemode — change viewmodus for files:
  • filenames only
  • name, attribute, links, size, modification time
  • name, attribute, owner, group
• -^L — refresh Screen 🔄

⭐ 4.) ARCHIV-FILE-Modus ⭐

• -Copy — copy selected file 📋
• -^K Copy — copy all tagged files 📚
• -Filespec — set file specification (reg. expression), e.g. *.[ch] for all *.c and *.h files 🌟
• -Hex — view selected file with HEXDUMP (see ~/.ytree), or — if not defined — hd / od -h 🔢
• -Pipe — pipe content of all tagged to a command 🚰
• -Sort — sort file list by:
  • access time
  • change time
  • extension
  • group
  • modification time
  • name
  • owner
  • size
• -Tag — tag selected file 🏷️
• -^Tag — tag all files in selected directory 🏷️🏷️
• -Untag — untag all files in selected directory 🙈
• -View — view file with the pager defined in ~/.ytree or — if not defined — with pg -cen 👓
• -eXecute — execute a shell command 💻
• -^Filemode — switch view-modus for files:
  • filenames only
  • name, attribute, links, size
• -^L — refresh Screen 🔄
• -Return — switch to Expand-Modus 🔁

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ytree switches to archive-modus automatically either by choosing an archive file with the Log command, or by calling ytree from the command line with an archive file given as a command line argument. bestie it just knows ✨

ytree recognizes the filename extensions ".F", ".Z", ".z" and ".gz" and calls the appropriate uncompressor MELT (default=melt), UNCOMPRESS (default=uncompress) and GNUUNZIP (default=gunzip -c). You may change these settings in ~/.ytree. 🛠️

ytree supports following archive types and requires:

• TAR-Files: gtar (tested with GNU-TAR 1.12)
• ARC-Files: arc (tested with arc 5.12 02/05/86)
• LHA-Files: xlharc (tested with xlharc V1.02 1989)
• ZIP-Files: unzip (tested with unzip v5.0 08/92)
• " " zipinfo (tested with zipinfo v1.0 08/92)
• ZOO-Files: zoo (tested with zoo v2.10)
• RAR-Files: unrar (tested with unrar v2.01
• RPM-Files: rpm2cpio (tested with RedHat V6.1)
• " " rpm (tested with RedHat V6.1)

Archive files will be recognized by filename extension (e.g zoo, zip). TAR-Files may have following extensions:

• ".F", ".TFR", ".Faa", (freeze)
• ".Z", ".TZ", ".TZR", ".Xaa", (compress)
• ".z", ".gz", ".tzr", ".tz", ".xaa", ".tgz", ".TGZ", ".taz", ".TAZ", ".tpz" und ".TPZ" (gzip)

The View command is customizeable in the [VIEWER] section of ~/.ytree: 🎨

Example:

 [VIEWER]
 .jpg,.gif,.bmp,.tif,.ppm,.xpm=xv
 .1,.2,.3,.4,.5,.6,.7,.8,.n=nroff -man | less
 .ps=ghostview
 .mid,.MID=playmidi -e
 .wav,.WAV=splay
 .au=auplay
 .avi,.mpg,.mov=xanim
 .htm,.html=lynx
 .pdf,.PDF=acroread
 .mp3=mpg123

A command-line history is supported: use cursor up/down. Use "F2" on the command-line to select directories. ⬆️⬇️

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🌟 FILES 🌟

• $HOME/.ytree — ytree configuration file ⚙️

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💀 BUGS 💀

To avoid problems with escape sequences on RS/6000 machines (telnet/rlogin) please set the environment variable ESCDELAY:

ESCDELAY=1000
export ESCDELAY

no fr, set it. escape sequences on those machines will absolutely jump-scare your terminal otherwise 😭

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👑 AUTOR 👑

W. Bregulla (werner@frolix.han.de) 🫶

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okay that's the whole thing, and it's from way back — 21 March 2004, in the YTREE(1L) local commands manual. vintage but still slaying 💅✨ bye bestie, go manage some files 🦋