Last time I taught bash, I opened an explorer/finder/nautilus window along
with terminal.  when i 'cd'  to a directory, I explicitly said (and did)
'this is the same as double clicking a folder'.

Although having a 'live' nautilus window to follow your bash commands is
nice, having a separate window slows you down and makes you re-iterate
definitions and what you are doing.

I also like showing them a folder with 1000's of files in it, as a practice
of using the wildcard to move files.  You don't want to actually have the
GUI draw the icons, things freak out.


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:21 AM, David Perez-Suarez <
[email protected]> wrote:

> A bit late in this thread but I'm just back from holidays.
>
> >   Does anyone know
> > if there's a two-pane desktop tool that has these two views, and
> > automatically updates each to reflect changes in the other?
>
> In linux, for Nautilus, there's this extension:
> http://projects.flogisoft.com/nautilus-terminal/
>
> It would be great though that the panel also shows what you do in the
> GUI...
> It's written in python and seems that could be possible to add stuff
> like mv, mkdir, touch and rm representation to the terminal easily
> enough... however it should avoid to execute it as it would be done by
> nautilus.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
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