2025-06-12 | TUI Challange, Day 5

content/post/2025/06/tui-challenge:-day-3.md

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 summary: "A Web of Trouble"
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-Day 3 of the TUI Challenge is about browsing the web in the terminal. I use to use browsers like
+# Day 3 of the TUI Challenge is about browsing the web in the terminal.
+I use to use browsers like
 [lynx](https://lynx.invisible-island.net) or [elinks](http://elinks.or.cz) back in the early days of the web when I had
 a slow connection like dial-up or a wireless modem from the late 1990's.  Back then, web sites were much simpler than
 today.  An advance web site might have tables!  So, in those days, a text browser worked well. But, how about now in the

content/post/2025/06/tui-challenge:-day-4.md

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 summary: "A Song For The Terminal"
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-Day 4: Let the music play! The challenge is stream music from the terminal.  Easy. I moved to self-hosting my music by
+# Day 4: Let the music play!
+The challenge is stream music from the terminal.  Easy. I moved to self-hosting my music by
 using a server [navidrome](https://www.navidrome.org).  I have been happy with this solution for a long time.  I have a
 [an android client](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/github.daneren2005.dsub) which caches locally so I can listen on the
 go without killing my cell bill.

content/post/2025/06/tui-challenge:-day-5.md

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+---
+date: "2025-06-12T04:00:00-07:00"
+title: "TUI Challenge: Day 5"
+tags: ["cli","tui"]
+categories: ["personal","sa"]
+#image: ""
+series: ["tuichallenge"]
+summary: "A Song For The Terminal"
+---
+
+# Day 5: File management. 
+'Wait!' you say 'You live at the terminal, what is wrong with *ls*, *cp*, or *mv*?' Well, most 
+of the time, that is fine, but there are times when I need to rename a bunch of files (cleaning up my MP3 collection) or
+quickly review some source files.  In those cases, what do I use?
+
+## vifm
+[vifm](https://github.com/vifm/vifm) is a 'file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for
+managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.'  When you start it up, you are great
+with a split window with directory listing on both side.  Using the normal vi keys moving around. You can select
+multiple files, and then do things like mass rename or move the file to the other pane.  Very quick and easy.  I have
+used this to bulk rename mp3s in a directory to my new naming standard.  I could write a script, but I have messed that
+up in the past, and part of why I need this type of tool to clean up.
+
+## ranger
+[ranger](https://github.com/ranger/ranger) is a 'VIM-inspired filemanager for the console'.  This is a tri-pane
+arrangement Contents of the parent directory, current directory, details of what you are looking at.  This last part is
+the useful part.  If you have selected a directory, it will show the contents of the directory.  If you are looking at a
+text file, it will show the contents of the file.  The lets you review many files without using a pager or an editor to
+review the contents.
+
+## Daily totals
+Score time!  [Yesterday](/post/2025/06/tui-challenge-day-4/) left us with 105 points.  On the score.  Using a tui
+filemanager, 10 points.  5 points for the bulk renaming.  I have done any scripting with these type of tools, so no more
+points there.  Total today, 15 points, and a grand running total is now 120.
+