Re: Transferring current path in nautilus, file browser to command line ??
- From: William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:53:27 -0500
Hi;
It was over a year ago when I last used it --- FC4 I think.
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 19:31 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
On date Saturday 2006-11-25 12:30:53 -0500, William Case, wrote:
Hi;
I know there is a way or a command or something, which can be used to
insert the current path into a terminal command. But, I forget and
can't find it again.
e.g. Using the file browser I find a file I am looking for,
say /usr/applicationfile/foo. Now in the gterminal (open at the same
time) I want to $ cat 'foundfile/foo'. How do I automatically
insert /usr/applicationfile/foo
Remind me how, please ??
Not sure about what you want.
As I remember, if I had gone to a directory or file using nautilus file
browser and decided to do something at a command line, I could open a
terminal and insert the current *nautilus* working director into the
bash command. If I remember I had a script (which I have lost) bound to
a key that would do the insertion for me. An alias also worked.
I.E. I believe there was an environmental constant something like
NAUTILUS_CURRENT_WORKING_DIRECTORY that was used. In any case, I am
half way there with the right click 'Open Terminal'. If I have selected
a directory in nautilus and then right click 'Open Terminal' the
terminal opens with [user at machine 'nautilus selected directory]$ so
the command line is finding the path for the
NAUTILUS_CURRENT_WORKING_DIRECTORY somewhere. I just can't find it.
You may check the $PWD environment variable (Print Working Directory),--
or the pwd corresponding command, that return the current path.
E.g.:
$ cd ~/foo
$ pwd
/home/username/foo
$ basename $PWD
foo
HTH
Cheers
Regards Bill
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