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nautilus-actions-new

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

NAME

       nautilus-actions-new - create new nautilus actions

SYNOPSIS

       nautilus-actions-new [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION

       nautilus-actions-new  creates new actions for the nautilus file manager non-interactively via the commandline. Action attributes are speci-
       fied via command-line options.

       By default, actions are written to STDOUT. However, they can also be written to a file suitable for later import via  nautilus-actions-con-
       fig-tool or you can even write the action directory to your GConf configuration for nautilus-actions

OPTIONS

   Help options
       -?, --help Show help options

       --help-all
	      Show all help options

       --help-output
	      Choose where the program creates the action

   Action-creation options
       -l, --label=LABEL The label of the menu item (mandatory)

       -t, --tooltip=TOOLTIP
	      The tooltip of the menu item

       -i, --icon=ICON
	      The icon of the menu item (filename or GTK stock ID)

       -c, --command=PATH
	      The path of the command

       -p, --parameters=PARAMS
	      The parameters of the command

       -m, --match=EXPR
	      A pattern to match selected files against. May include wildcards (* or ?) (you must set one option for each pattern you need)

       -C, --match-case=PATH
	      The path of the command

       -T, --mimetypes=EXPR
	      A  pattern  to  match selected files' mimetype against. May include wildcards (* or ?) (you must set one option for each pattern you
	      need)

       -f, --accept-files
	      Set it if the selection must only contain files

       -d, --accept-dirs
	      Set it if the selection must only contain folders. Specify both '--isfile' and '--isdir' options is selection can contain both types
	      of items

       -M, --accept-multiple-files
	      Set it if the selection can have several items

       -s, --scheme=SCHEME
	      A valid GVFS scheme where the selected files should be located (you must set one option for each scheme you need)

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 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-run(1) nautilus-actions-print(1)

Debian GNU/Linux						    2009-08-06						   nautilus-actions-new(1)