The “*” entry (that the set show above begins) requires a bit of special mention. Similarly, “.” takes you to the parent directory, “~” takes you to your home directory, and “<” opens the current directory of the other panel. Instead of clicking the “” entry again and again, you can just click the “/” symbol from the list shown in the image above. Suppose you want to go to root directory. Similarly, the other buttons let you copy, move, and delete stuff, as well as create a directory and exit the application.Įach panel window has a set of symbols over it (image shown below) that act as clickable buttons and serve as shortcuts to directories. Moving on, the next set of important functionalities is located at the bottom of the Double Commander UI.Ĭlicking the “View F3” button opens the built-in file viewer to view files in hex, binary or text format, while the “Edit F4” button launches the internal text editor.
Keep exploring these main menus, and you’ll find some very useful features. Similarly, head over to the “Commands” menu, and you’ll see a “Run Terminal” option which – as the name suggests – opens a command line terminal from within the editor. Move over to the “Mark” menu, and you’ll see various available options, including a couple that let you copy the file names as well as names with complete paths of the selected files. An important thing worth mentioning here is that you can easily drag and drop a file into an archive, and Double Commander will make sure that it’s added to the archive.
They let you create an archive and extract contents from an archive, respectively. Next up, the “Pack Files…” and “Extract Files…” options that follow the “Multi Rename Tool” option (described above) in the “File” menu. Now, click the “Rename” button at the bottom to complete the operation. For this just add this text after the “” in the ‘File Name’ text box, and you’ll see that the “New File Name” column at the top shows the updated file names. Just select the files that you want to rename and click this option, and you’ll see the following window.Īs you can see, I selected two files named “screenkey” and “screenkey-edited.” Now suppose the aim is to append a “-new” text at the end of the name of both files. Moving on, just next to the “Compare by Contents” option is the “Multi Rename Tool.” As the name suggests, this option lets you rename multiple files in one go. Here’s a screenshot of the compare tool in action. Of course, you need to select a couple of files before launching this tool.
Given that we’re using Ubuntu 14.04, the following set of commands downloaded and installed the file manager on our system: For example, in our case (Ubuntu) we clicked the link corresponding to GTK2 in the GNU/Linux section and then selected Ubuntu.
You can proceed by clicking links corresponding to your OS.
The download and install instructions for Double Commander are there on its official website. Note: we’ve used Double Commander version 0.7.2 beta for this article. The application is still in beta phase, presumably because all the features envisioned for it haven’t been implemented yet – it’s currently under heavy development. It is inspired by Total Commander but contains some new features. Double Commanderĭouble Commander is an open-source, dual-panel file manager that’s available for various operating systems including Linux. Directly to the point, you’ll be glad to know that such tools exist, and one of them is Double Commander which we’ll be discussing in this article.
Ithor pro not working.What if you could access most of these features from within a single software? Or better yet, think of a file manager that packs a majority of these tools so that you don’t have to open separate applications for your day-to-day tasks.