A few useful little rox-scripts

[giac_fab]

Sometimes I need full path of a file ( to use it with rxvt for example ) so I did this very simple script .

#!/bin/bash

gxmessage "$1"

Right button - Open With - Customize >>> New Script ( Paste above text to script)

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Sometimes I need to open a file with a non-default application, so I did this very simple script .

#!/bin/sh

value=$(gxmessage -title "OPEN WITH .... " -entry WHICH PROGRAM ? )

$value "$1"

Right button - Open With - Customize >>> New Script ( Paste above text to script)

[giac_fab]

Same as above .....
I liked so much "extract here" shell-extension of WinRar.
This script will extract a tar-compatible file directly to EXTRACTED-name_of_file in the same directory you are.

#!/bin/bash

filename=$(basename $1)

directory=$(echo $1 | sed /$filename/s///g)

cd $directory

newdir=EXTRACTED-$filename

mkdir $directory$newdir

tar -xf $1 -C $directory$newdir

rox $directory$newdir

[Dingo]

Good Job! but... if I must extract not a tar but a zip file? How change the command line in script?

[Lobster]

Useful

What I have done up to now is open the program
and look at Start / System / KP manage running processes
to find where it is running from . . .

[HairyWill]

Excellent
lots of this sort of glue could make puppy much more friendly

with filetype specific handlers it makes sense to put them in mime-type based directories so that they only get shown when appropriate eg
for the tgz extractor put the script into
~/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/OpenWith/.application_x-compressed-tar/

I wonder how hard it would be to configure/recompile rox so that these specific handlers were shown directly on the context menu rather than being hidden in the open-with menu.
I appreciate some people will now post issues with the massively long context menus that one can acquire in windows


edit
when naming these handler scripts
if you are giving the system to newbies it makes sense to name the scripts with their function not the application name ie
"image-viewer" requires less knowledge than "qiv"

[giac_fab]

Thanks ....

Dingo ...

To unzip you need to sobstitute

tar -xf $1 -C $directory$newdir

with

unzip $1 -d $directory$newdir

.... I'll modify script so it will do it itself

[Dingo]

thnaks, I have made a little summary page on dokupuppy:
- http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy ... ox_scripts

with all your scripts. I hope will be useful

[giac_fab]

Another ...

Simply create a zip file directly from a directory .... You will see a question about full or relative path .
if your directory is /root/my-documents/xxx
FULL = into zip you will seen cmplete path ( good for backup )
RELATIVE = into zip you will see only xxx ( and sub-directory )

#!/bin/bash

filename=$(basename $1)

directory=$(echo $1 | sed /$filename/s///g)

cd $directory

value=$(gxmessage Path ? -buttons Relative,Full -print)

if [ $value = Relative ]; then

zip -r $filename $filename

fi

if [ $value = Full ]; then

zip -r $filename $1

fi

[giac_fab]

#!/bin/bash

rxvt -bg "yellow" -geometry 60x20 -title $1 -e $1 #increase geometry or change colour
sleep 5 # or more if you need ( rxvt will close after 5 sec)

with this you will execute script directly in rxvt

[alienjeff]

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.

Not entirely correct. To wit:
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day - teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

[HairyWill]

why
-title DVgrab
how about
-title $1

[willhunt]

I really like those compression scripts
thanks

[trapster]

This is cool.
Now I can right-click a file and upload it to my website from a script.

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!

Thanks.

[mbutts]

Very nice!!! Thanks for sharing!

[giac_fab]

why
-title DVgrab
how about
-title $1

Obiviously an error ..... I taken it from another my script.

I suggest also a "sleep X" to see results.


alienjeff : LOL

[Juveno41]

Sometimes I need full path of a file ( to use it with rxvt for example ) so I did this very simple script .
#!/bin/bash
gxmessage "$1"
Right button - Open With - Customize >>> New Script ( Paste above text to script)

I succesfully made your script, and it's very useful. but when I select 'Customize' in roxfiler, it opens a directory whose name suggests a single type of extension(rpm, for example). so will it affect that type of extension, only?

And another beginner's question : how do I paste the copied path (or whatever) in a rxvt window?

[giac_fab]

MHHH you need to read better my first post ....

The first one customise you find ,of course, will affect only the current selected extension.

You need to go to "OPEN WITH" voice ( about on the middle of menu ), into this you will see another "customise" (the one you need).

To paste to rxvt : SHIFT + INS

[Everitt]

How about, in the unzip script, auto detecting if it's full or relative? It should be as easy as:

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#!/bin/bash 

filename=$(basename $1) 
 
directory=$(echo $1 | sed /$filename/s///g)

cd $directory

value=$(gxmessage Path ? -buttons Relative,Full -print)

if echo $1 | egrep "^/.+" ; then #egrep returns success (true) if the first character is a forward slash

  zip -r $filename $filename 

else

  zip -r $filename $1

fi

(Having to use my Dad's windows laptop, so i can't test it myself.)

Also, can I suggest that you put double quotes around the variables, to prevent it getting confused if there are spaces in the filename?

[Juveno41]

You need to go to "OPEN WITH" voice ( about on the middle of menu ), into this you will see another "customise" (the one you need).

It took some time, but I found it. Thank you.