Re: nautilus-actions that need parameters?

[Ross Vandegrift <ross kallisti us>]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:16:43AM -0700, Steven Brown wrote:
> Hi Ross,
> 
> You could try using zenity to prompt the user for the directory, and 
> then call rsync.
> 
> DIR=`zenity --file-selection --directory --filename="$DEFAULT_DIR" 
> --title="Please choose a directory..."`;

Perfect, super-simple:

#!/bin/bash

TARGET=`zenity --file-selection --directory --title="Please choose a directory..."`

/usr/bin/rsync $* $TARGET | zenity --progress --pulsate --text="Running rsync..."


Even gives is a progress bar.  Thanks for the tip!


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Ross Vandegrift
ross kallisti us

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