VFU(1)

NAME
vfu - VFU is console (text-mode) file manager for UNIX/Linux

SYNOPSIS
vfu [options]

DESCRIPTION
vfu has following features:

 - Fast one-key commands
 - Extended completion and wildcard expansion
 - Directory tree with sizes (incl. sizes cache)
 - File-type colorization (extension and type)
 - Archives support (TAR, TGZ, BZ2, and many more)
 - Simple FTP support through archive-like interface
 - Internal text/hex file viewer and editor (optional)
 - Extensive user-defined external support/utils
 - Regular expressions selection and search
 - Multiple file masks
 - and much more...

OPTIONS
 -h
prints help for command line options

 -i
runs vfu in interactive mode (can be used with \-d)

 -d path
changes working directory to `path'

 -r
rebuild directory tree

 -t
view directory tree only

These options are for using vfu in partial non-interactive mode.

 example: vfu -d /usr/local -i

CONFIGURATION
vfu configuration is divided in two parts (files):

vfu.conf

This file contains configuration for external editor and pager, favorite directories, file-type colorization. This is plain text file which format is described below. vfu only reads vfu.conf, it never writes in it!

vfu.options

This file contains all Options/Toggles which can be changed from inside vfu -- Options menu. vfu.options is binary file and is overwritten on vfu exit or on change option event! Deleting this file will reset vfu toggles to default values. vfu.options is not portable between vfu versions!

  Location of vfu.conf
vfu.conf can be placed as any of:

 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.conf

 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.conf  (if $RC_PREFIX is exported)

 /etc/vfu.conf

 /usr/local/etc/vfu.conf

 /usr/local/vfu.conf

  Other files location
All other files including vfu.options are placed in:

 $HOME/.vfu/

 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/

What is $RC_PREFIX and why to use it? Some more information for this can be found in the CONFIG file which is supplied with vfu package.

VFU.CONF
This is a sample copy of vfu.conf with appropriate comments:

DISTRIBUTION
It is supposed that only source packages will be distributed. However sometimes binary packages will be released, but not often. VFU packages are named in this way:

 vfu-X.xx.src.tgz

source package for version X.xx

 vfu-X.xx.bin.platform.tgz

binary package for version X.xx for `platform' platform

examples:

 vfu-4.22.src.tgz

 vfu-4.22.bin.linux.glibc.tgz

 vfu-4.22.bin.linux.libc5.tgz

 vfu-4.22.bin.dos.tgz

All packages are TAR+GZIP .tgz, bz2 and zip are available on request.

NOTE: Always check HISTORY document -- it often contains some useful notes!

FILES
 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.conf

configuration, explained above

 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.options

options, explained above

 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.history

contains history lines

 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.tree

contains directory tree

If you don't set $RC_PREFIX configuration files are:

 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.conf
 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.options
 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.history
 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.tree

TODO
see the TODO file

BUGS
unknown

AUTHOR
 1996-2022 (c) Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski "Cade"
 <cade@noxrun.com> <cade@bis.bg> <cade@cpan.org>
 http://cade.noxrun.com/projects/vfu