Re: Making dviews scriptable.

[anthony <dreadyman16 gmail com>]

Dale Wiles a écrit :

Do you know Crtl+s  ?
It allows you to select file from a regular expression, so perhaps i 
could help you.

I think the problem is that the search option in nautilus isn't enough 
powerfull, there is not enough options.
In my opinion, it could be more usefull to rethink at new this feature 
in nautilus.

Anthony
> Greetings,
>
> I don't know the proper Nautilus terminology so please bear with me.
>
> When you do a search in Nautilus, a new view?/widow? pops up with all the
> files that match.  What's the term for this new pseudo-directory?  For the
> sake of this email I'll call it a dview.
>
> Can dviews be made from scripts/extensions?  If so, how complex are they
> to handle?
>
> The reason I'm asking is I think that being able to easily read/write
> dviews would greatly increase the power of Nautilus.
>
> For example, you could write a script that uses some arbitrary rules to
> select files and then show just the files you want in a window.
>
>   find /huge_directory [rules] -print | dview -create
>
> After that the user could use Nautilus to delete, rename or whatever.
>
> Another thing you could do is restrict the files in an existing
> directory/dview.  Assume you've opened up a directory with a 1000 files in
> it.  It would be nice to winnow down the files to just what you want to
> see.  A Nautilus script like this would get the job done.
>
>   #!/bin/bash
>
>   re=`zenity --entry --text="Enter Filer Regexp:" \
> 	      --width=300 --title="Nautilus Filter"`
>
>   dview -read "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI" | grep $re | dview -create
>
> Any opinions on whether or not this plausable?
>
> - Dale
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