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    Quite a difference!

    And that's how `clex` looks like:

    ![clex](http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/download/file.php?id=2283&t=1)

    A nice file manager is `vfu`. It's similarly lean, and it's a bit easier to use:

    ![vfu](http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/download/file.php?id=2284&t=1)

    And this is `ytree`, with a nice layout and shortcut help in the bottom row:

    ![ytree](http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/download/file.php?id=2285&t=1)

    Now just to continue the terminal brainwash, here is the dependency count of one of the lightest graphical (!) file managers, using `GTK2` and depending on `policykit` and more:
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    > Depends: libncurses5
    Quite a difference!

    Quite a difference. That's how `clex` looks like:
    And that's how `clex` looks like:

    ![clex](http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/download/file.php?id=2283&t=1)

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    search file | grep manager | more
    ```

    So we search for packages that have `'file'` in the description or package name. The `'|grep'` will filter out results that contain the word `'manager'` additionally. Let's add a `'|more'` because we'll get a huge list, and we prefer to scroll through it.
    So we search for packages that have `'file'` in the description or package name.

    Damned, still too much choice! There's everything inside, from `nautilus` to `ytree`. But the BBQ is a nice place, so here's a list of file managers for the console, to save you from installing bullshit:
    The `'|grep'` will filter out results that contain the word `'manager'` additionally.

    Let's add a `'|more'` because we'll get a huge list, and we prefer to scroll through it.

    Damned, still too much choice!

    There's everything inside, from `nautilus` to `ytree`.

    But the BBQ is a nice place, so here's a list of file managers for the console, to save you from installing bullshit:
    > clex
    > fdclone
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    > Depends: libncurses5

    Quite a difference. That's how `clex` looks like:

    ![clex](http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/download/file.php?id=2283&t=1)
    @@ -147,13 +148,11 @@ depends pcmanfm
    > Recommends: policykit-1-gnome
    > lxsession
    > mate-polkit
    > Recommends: lxsession
    > Recommends: mate-polkit
    > Recommends: <lxpolkit>
    > Recommends: lxpolkit
    > Recommends: lxde-icon-theme
    @@ -229,7 +228,9 @@ depends libgtk2.0-0

    So, before you bloat up your system with dependencies of dependencies, check the repositories first if there is a CLI program that can do what you actually want to do.

    See also the most important article of every LinuxBBQ user
    See also the most important article of every LinuxBBQ user:

    The BBQ Philosophy: http://ow.ly/NkY9P

    ## Further Reading:

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    ```
    depends clex
    ```
    which shows:

    > clex
    > Depends: libc6
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    ```
    depends pcmanfm
    ```
    which spits out:

    > pcmanfm
    > Depends: libatk1.0-0
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    ```
    depends libgtk2.0-0
    ```

    > libgtk2.0-0
    > Depends: libgtk2.0-common
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    Damned, still too much choice! There's everything inside, from `nautilus` to `ytree`. But the BBQ is a nice place, so here's a list of file managers for the console, to save you from installing bullshit:

    > clex
    > fdclone
    > gnuit (gitfm)
    > lfm
    > mc
    > ranger
    > vifm
    > vfu
    > ytree
    Well, what's the difference between `clex` and `fdclone`, or `vifm` and `vfu`, for example?
    @@ -42,31 +50,51 @@ How to find out? Use `apt-cache depends`:
    depends ranger
    ```
    which spits out:

    > ranger
    > Depends: python
    > Depends: python
    > Suggests: atool
    > Suggests: caca-utils
    > Suggests: elinks
    > Suggests: elinks-lite
    > Suggests: lynx
    > Suggests: w3m
    > Suggests: highlight
    > Suggests: less
    > Suggests: poppler-utils
    > Recommends: file
    > Recommends: python-chardet
    > Recommends: sudo
    > sudo-ldap
    > Recommends: w3m-img
    And now let's compare it with one of the lightest file managers that is in the repos, `clex`:
    ```
    depends clex
    ```
    which shows:

    > clex
    > Depends: libc6
    > Depends: libncurses5
    Quite a difference. That's how `clex` looks like:
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    depends pcmanfm
    ```
    which spits out:

    > pcmanfm
    > Depends: libatk1.0-0
    > Depends: libc6
    > Depends: libcairo2
    > Depends: libfm-gtk4
    > Depends: libfm4
    > Depends: libfontconfig1
    > Depends: libfreetype6
    > Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
    > Depends: libglib2.0-0
    > Depends: libgtk2.0-0
    > Depends: libpango-1.0-0
    > Depends: libpangocairo-1.0-0
    > Depends: libpangoft2-1.0-0
    > Depends: libx11-6
    > Recommends: gvfs-backends
    > Recommends: gvfs-fuse
    > Recommends: policykit-1-gnome
    > lxsession
    > mate-polkit
    > Recommends: mate-polkit
    > Recommends: <lxpolkit>
    > Recommends: lxde-icon-theme
    > Recommends: gnome-icon-theme
    > Recommends: oxygen-icon-theme
    > Recommends: tango-icon-theme
    And hey, there's more. One of the dependencies is `libgtk2.0-0`. And guess what, this package has another bunch of dependencies that have to be satisfied:
    @@ -119,33 +173,61 @@ depends libgtk2.0-0
    ```

    > libgtk2.0-0
    > Depends: libgtk2.0-common
    > Depends: libatk1.0-0
    > Depends: libc6
    > Depends: libcairo2
    > Depends: libcups2
    > Depends: libfontconfig1
    > Depends: libfreetype6
    > Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
    > Depends: libglib2.0-0
    > Depends: libpango-1.0-0
    > Depends: libpangocairo-1.0-0
    > Depends: libpangoft2-1.0-0
    > Depends: libx11-6
    > Depends: libxcomposite1
    > Depends: libxcursor1
    > Depends: libxdamage1
    > Depends: libxext6
    > Depends: libxfixes3
    > Depends: libxi6
    > Depends: libxinerama1
    > Depends: libxrandr2
    > Depends: libxrender1
    > Depends: shared-mime-info
    > PreDepends: multiarch-support
    > Suggests: librsvg2-common
    > Suggests: gvfs
    > Recommends: hicolor-icon-theme
    > Recommends: libgtk2.0-bin
    ... and so on, and so on.
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    # Lesson 7 - Terminal III: Productivity without overhead

    Most daily tasks, like reading and answering emails, listening to music, reading some RSS feeds, calculating the BMI, creating and extracting zip archives, surfing the internet, copying files from one computer to the other or checking the weather forecast can be accomplished in the terminal.

    Some of the people here at the BBQ even say, that this is the preferred way of doing something.

    Why?

    To answer this question, check the links at the end of this lesson.

    There are people who have written huge articles about the topic - and they are right :)

    In this lesson you can lay back and relax. It's really just about choice now, and hopefully you will remember some of the tips when you build up your own productivity systems.

    Of course, we first have to know what your daily computer tasks are. Let's put the browsers aside for a moment, they are usually GUI applications and under the hood they really just render websites, plus or minus a few extras.

    Let's take a look at file managers instead. They can come handy when you want to move stuff around, in a more visual way than the core utilities. We fire up `apt-cache search`:
    ```
    search file | grep manager | more
    ```

    So we search for packages that have `'file'` in the description or package name. The `'|grep'` will filter out results that contain the word `'manager'` additionally. Let's add a `'|more'` because we'll get a huge list, and we prefer to scroll through it.

    Damned, still too much choice! There's everything inside, from `nautilus` to `ytree`. But the BBQ is a nice place, so here's a list of file managers for the console, to save you from installing bullshit:

    > clex
    > fdclone
    > gnuit (gitfm)
    > lfm
    > mc
    > ranger
    > vifm
    > vfu
    > ytree
    Well, what's the difference between `clex` and `fdclone`, or `vifm` and `vfu`, for example?

    Firstly, they look and work different. You can have file managers with a single pane, some with two panes, others have a preview mode, some can be navigated with the 'home row'. But most importantly, they have different dependencies. Dependencies are packages that are needed by the (main) program to run. For example, 'ranger' (a very nice file browser with on-the-fly preview of images and file contents) depends on Python. If you program in Python anyway, this would be an OK choice as file manager. If you want to keep your system lean and clean, you would rather prefer to install a file manager that does not depend on extra packages.

    How to find out? Use `apt-cache depends`:
    ```
    depends ranger
    ```
    which spits out:
    > ranger
    > Depends: python
    > Depends: python
    > Suggests: atool
    > Suggests: caca-utils
    > Suggests: elinks
    > Suggests: elinks-lite
    > Suggests: lynx
    > Suggests: w3m
    > Suggests: highlight
    > Suggests: less
    > Suggests: poppler-utils
    > Recommends: file
    > Recommends: python-chardet
    > Recommends: sudo
    > sudo-ldap
    > Recommends: w3m-img
    And now let's compare it with one of the lightest file managers that is in the repos, `clex`:
    ```
    depends clex
    ```
    which shows:
    > clex
    > Depends: libc6
    > Depends: libncurses5
    Quite a difference. That's how `clex` looks like:

    ![clex](http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/download/file.php?id=2283&t=1)

    A nice file manager is `vfu`. It's similarly lean, and it's a bit easier to use:

    ![vfu](http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/download/file.php?id=2284&t=1)

    And this is `ytree`, with a nice layout and shortcut help in the bottom row:

    ![ytree](http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/download/file.php?id=2285&t=1)

    Now just to continue the terminal brainwash, here is the dependency count of one of the lightest graphical (!) file managers, using `GTK2` and depending on `policykit` and more:
    ```
    depends pcmanfm
    ```
    which spits out:
    > pcmanfm
    > Depends: libatk1.0-0
    > Depends: libc6
    > Depends: libcairo2
    > Depends: libfm-gtk4
    > Depends: libfm4
    > Depends: libfontconfig1
    > Depends: libfreetype6
    > Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
    > Depends: libglib2.0-0
    > Depends: libgtk2.0-0
    > Depends: libpango-1.0-0
    > Depends: libpangocairo-1.0-0
    > Depends: libpangoft2-1.0-0
    > Depends: libx11-6
    > Recommends: gvfs-backends
    > Recommends: gvfs-fuse
    > Recommends: policykit-1-gnome
    > lxsession
    > mate-polkit
    > Recommends: mate-polkit
    > Recommends: <lxpolkit>
    > Recommends: lxde-icon-theme
    > Recommends: gnome-icon-theme
    > Recommends: oxygen-icon-theme
    > Recommends: tango-icon-theme
    And hey, there's more. One of the dependencies is `libgtk2.0-0`. And guess what, this package has another bunch of dependencies that have to be satisfied:
    ```
    depends libgtk2.0-0
    ```

    > libgtk2.0-0
    > Depends: libgtk2.0-common
    > Depends: libatk1.0-0
    > Depends: libc6
    > Depends: libcairo2
    > Depends: libcups2
    > Depends: libfontconfig1
    > Depends: libfreetype6
    > Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
    > Depends: libglib2.0-0
    > Depends: libpango-1.0-0
    > Depends: libpangocairo-1.0-0
    > Depends: libpangoft2-1.0-0
    > Depends: libx11-6
    > Depends: libxcomposite1
    > Depends: libxcursor1
    > Depends: libxdamage1
    > Depends: libxext6
    > Depends: libxfixes3
    > Depends: libxi6
    > Depends: libxinerama1
    > Depends: libxrandr2
    > Depends: libxrender1
    > Depends: shared-mime-info
    > PreDepends: multiarch-support
    > Suggests: librsvg2-common
    > Suggests: gvfs
    > Recommends: hicolor-icon-theme
    > Recommends: libgtk2.0-bin
    ... and so on, and so on.

    So, before you bloat up your system with dependencies of dependencies, check the repositories first if there is a CLI program that can do what you actually want to do.

    See also the most important article of every LinuxBBQ user

    ## Further Reading:

    ### K. Mandla's old blog
    http://ow.ly/NkPmI

    ### K. Mandla's Inconsolation blog, a must read
    http://ow.ly/NkPnU

    ### Fellow griller DebianJoe's X11 Must Die
    http://ow.ly/NkPul

    ### The UNIX toolbox
    http://ow.ly/NkPww

    ### CommandlineFu
    http://ow.ly/NkPy4

    ### Fellow griller GekkoP's blog (Italian)
    http://ow.ly/NkPBl