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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

nautilus-actions-print

nautilus-actions-print(1)				      General Commands Manual					 nautilus-actions-print(1)

NAME

       nautilus-actions-print - Print a menu or an action to stdout.

SYNOPSIS

       nautilus-actions-print [OPTION]

OPTIONS

   Help Options
       -?, --help
	      Show help options

       -?, --help-all
	      Show all help options

       -?, --help-misc
	      Miscellaneous options

   Miscellaneous Options
       -?, --version
	      Output the version number

   Application Options
       -i, --id=ID
	      The identifiant ID of the menu or the action to be printed

       -f, --format=FORMAT
	      An export FORMAT	[Desktop1]

BUGS

       Please report bugs in nautilus-actions to <submit@bugs.debian.org>. The current bug list may be viewed at <http://bugs.debian.org/nautilus-
       actions>.

AUTHOR

       nautilus-actions was written by Rodrigo Moya  <rodrigo@novell.com>,  Frederic  Ruaudel  <grumz@grumz.net>,  Pierre  Wieser  <pwieser@trych-
       los.org>, and contributors.

       This  manual  page  was	written by Alice Ferrazzi <aliceinwire@gnumerica.org> and Jean Schurger <jean@schurger.org>, inspired by Christine
       Spang <christine@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

LICENSING

       Both the nautilus-actions source code and this man page are licensed under the GNU General Public License.

SEE ALSO

       nautilus(1),nautilus-actions(1),nautilus-actions-schemas(1),
	   nautilus-actions-new(1), nautilus-actions-run(1)

Debian GNU/Linux						    2011-05-11						 nautilus-actions-print(1)

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