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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Piping to ex from a script Post 302140269 by mph on Thursday 11th of October 2007 03:54:42 PM
Old 10-11-2007
If only all of life were that easy

I guess I was looking so hard at the format of the echo statement, I didn't see that it could have been the problem!!! As I read that I heard a very loud "POP" I think it might of been my head coming out of my tail... Smilie

But Like I always say... "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!"

Thanks a bunch.

P.S. The printf didn't work. echo -e did.

Last edited by mph; 10-12-2007 at 10:43 AM.. Reason: update
 

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NAUTILUS-SCRIPTS-MANAGER(1)				      General Commands Manual				       NAUTILUS-SCRIPTS-MANAGER(1)

NAME
nautilus-scripts-manager - easy tool for nautilus scripts management SYNOPSIS
nautilus-scripts-manager [options] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the nautilus-scripts-manager command. nautilus-scripts-manager is a program that allows any user to easily manage installed Nautilus scripts. GENERAL OPTIONS
-h, --help Show summary of options. -v, --version Show version of program. COMMANDS
One (and only one) of the following commands can be passed: -e, --enable=ENABLE Enable script ENABLE. -d, --disable=DISABLE Disable script DISABLE. -l, --list-enabled List enabled scripts. -a, --list-available List available scripts. If no command is provided, the graphical interface is started. OPTIONS
-e, --position=POSITION In conjunction with -e or -d: establish the position of the script (can be just a name, or a path with slashes - quote it if it con- tains spaces). SEE ALSO
nautilus(1), AUTHOR
nautilus-scripts-manager and this manual page were written by Pietro Battiston <me@pietrobattiston.it>. This manual page was written for the Debian project (but may be used by others). July 14, 2009 NAUTILUS-SCRIPTS-MANAGER(1)
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