[NTLUG:Discuss] nautilus script (was: Simple bash shell question)

[. Daniel]

>. Daniel wrote:
> > But when I'm ready, this will be a Nautilus script and anything that
> > currently references the likes of *.mpg will become something like "cat
> > $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS" which shouldn't, in theory, break
> > bash's expansion buffer since there's no expansion going on.
>
>What you are trying to do sounds interesting.  Can you explain a bit
>more? What is a Nautilus script?  Can you give a bit more example of
>what you are trying to do?
>
>Regards,
>- Robert

Well here's an example of what I have already done:

----
#!/bin/sh
echo "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS" | while read filename ; do
  if [ -n "$filename" ]; then 
#   echo "~/bin/vid2bb.sh \"$filename\"" >> ~/.vid2bb.out
    echo "~/bin/vid2bb.sh \"$filename\"" | sh
  fi
done
----

I have another script that processes named files into other files with 
similar derivative filenames.  It's just a few lines of code that calls 
mencode to re-encode video files to fit onto my blackberry pearl phone.

So when I want to process a batch of files, I do a multiple select of files 
in Nautilus, right-click on them, go down to "scripts..." and select the 
one I want to run.  Nautilus passes variables to whatever it calls scripts 
indicating a variety of things like URIs and stuff like that.  One of them 
is the one I indicated and it is in the form of pathlists separated by 
carriage returns.

Ultimately, I want to merge all the scripts and have a progress dialog pop 
up so I can see what it's doing and even cancel the activity.

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