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akovia

Member

Registered: 2011-03-27

Posts: 60

Thunar Custom Action Selections

Hi,
I might be missing something but I can not figure out how to pass "Only" the selected directories either directly or to a bash script. It always seems to grab "All" the directories in the current directory I'm working in.
In this case, it works on all directories even using %d.

<action>
	<icon>/home/akovia/bin/FontRename4/FontRename4_48x.png</icon>
	<name>FontRename4</name>
	<unique-id>1447892031263855-26</unique-id>
	<command>terminator --profile stayopen --geometry 1280x720+820+150 --borderless -x  java -jar /home/akovia/bin/FontRename4.jar  -h1 -m3 -s %d | tee -a fontrename4.log</command>
	<description>Rename Fonts </description>
	<patterns>*</patterns>
	<directories/>
</action>

Also,
I am having a hard time following the logic of how these commands flow as I can't seem to send stdout to both the terminal and to a log file. I tried using ">>" before piping with tee, but in both cases it creates an empty file.

Lastly,
not sure if it's possible, but I would also like to be able to work on only selected Directories OR selected files with the same CA.

Help with any of these would be greatly appreciated.

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ToZ

Administrator

From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,482

Re: Thunar Custom Action Selections

Hi,
I might be missing something but I can not figure out how to pass "Only" the selected directories either directly or to a bash script. It always seems to grab "All" the directories in the current directory I'm working in.
In this case, it works on all directories even using %d.

Use %F to get only the selected directories.

Also,
I am having a hard time following the logic of how these commands flow as I can't seem to send stdout to both the terminal and to a log file. I tried using ">>" before piping with tee, but in both cases it creates an empty file.

I can't get the tee to work either. I'll see if I can figure out why.

Lastly,
not sure if it's possible, but I would also like to be able to work on only selected Directories OR selected files with the same CA.

%F will do this provided that you select all of the check boxes in the "Appearance Conditions" tab and set "File Pattern" to "*"

Consider the following example:

<action>
	<icon></icon>
	<name>dir par test</name>
	<unique-id>1447895896531597-7</unique-id>
	<command>/home/toz/Downloads/tmp/ca %F</command>
	<description>dir par test</description>
	<patterns>*</patterns>
	<directories/>
	<audio-files/>
	<image-files/>
	<other-files/>
	<text-files/>
	<video-files/>
</action>

...where the ca executable contains:

#!/bin/bash

for par in $@
do
	echo "$par" >> /tmp/par.log
done

This will print out all the selected files and directories.

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akovia

Member

Registered: 2011-03-27

Posts: 60

Re: Thunar Custom Action Selections

Thank you so much ToZ!

I'm eager to hear if you come up with anything on the tee problem, but you've already been infinitely helpful.

Cheers

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