[ubuntu-studio-devel] File Manager

[Grant Frank Burton]

ok thank you very much



Another file manager question.


most programs open up and I can see the different drives. But in open
office it still displays the file system the old way.

Do you know if that will change?

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:55:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >Final solution, you can use
> >
> >exiftool %F
> >         ^^ instead of %f
>
> Oops,
>
> this also works when using a shell and for the use with roxterm and the
> wrapper it doesn't work with %F, but with "%F" :).
>
> In the end I prefer for my workflow not to provide exiftool by a task,
> nor by SpaceFM's terminal option.
>
> I had a menu
>
> exiftool                          Ctrl+Escape  [1]
> exiftool all selected files shell Shift+Escape [2]
> exiftool all selected files task               [2]
>
> [1] roxterm -e exiftool-wrapper %f
> [2] exiftool %F
>
> compared all options and  decided to deleted both entries [2] and made
> the menu
>
> exiftool                          Ctrl+Escape  [new]
>
> [new] roxterm --maximize -e exiftool-wrapper "%F"
>
> This fits best to my needs, but as Len already pointed out, for images
> there might be better tools than file managers.
>
> Unfortunately with the quotes it fails for file names including spaces.
>
> Editing the script doesn't help.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> exiftool "$*"
>
> fails with several spaces one after the other.
>
> exiftool $* fails too, $@ fails too.
>
> In the end I reverted to exiftool "$@", since it's ok for CLI and
> roxterm --maximize -e exiftool-wrapper %f
>
> and I stay with this solution, others might use e.g. a SpaceFM task,
> that seems to enables usage F% (or I didn't test hard enought).
>
> --
> exiftool-wrapper
>
> #!/bin/bash
> exiftool "$@"
> echo -e "\nPress any key to exit."
> read -n1 char
> echo
> exit
>
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