Yet another web log

Nautilus, the standard file manager of Ubuntu, has a feature which automatically opens a new window when an external media such as a USB flash drive or an external disk is plugged in. Generally a great idea, because usually you want to work with the stuff you are connecting to your computer. However, it can get pretty annoying when the external disk or mass media device is partitioned in many parts and Nautilus opens that amount of windows.

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Working on the console is sometimes tiring, especially when you have to rename files. Using Nautilus is much quicker for these types of actions. The problem is, that if you’re working in a deep depth of your file tree and your path is very long, it may take you some extra seconds to open this path in the Nautilus browser. So wouldn’t it be much easier to simply type naut on the console to open Nautilus with the current working directory?

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