Daniel Barclay wrote:
Actually the shell is, for cases like "rm *.o". (That's why I wish
graphical shells retained the advantages of command lines when they
added the graphical advantages.
I should have said "partial, non-continuious selections across a
large list." Simple cases like *.o, yeah, shell does fine. I mean
like a list of, 2-300 files which have no common denominator.
Suddenly the globbing gets rather convoluted or you need to go
through several passes whereas in a GUI selection you can just go
down the list holding CNTL and SHIFT-select ranges and then execute
one operation at the end.