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Old 04-29-2013
Launching Nautilus with a set of files ??

Hello ,

I am trying to create a layer of file-tagging trough bash scripting and tlc/tk .

I have almost everything ready only needs to be able to launch nautilus (the gnome file manager) with a regular expresion; when searching information in internet with "script and nautilus", i only find how to add scripting to contextual menu in nautilus; but im really searching howto launch nautilus through a shell script and a REGULAR EXPRESION in this way :

> nautilus /home/me/ *.zip SmilieSmilie

or

> nautilus /home/me P?*rar


etc .....

It is impossible that it is not possible, but it seemed ......
 

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nautilus-file-management-properties(1)			      General Commands Manual			    nautilus-file-management-properties(1)

NAME
nautilus-file-management-properties - File Management Preferences SYNOPSIS
nautilus-file-management-properties [options] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the nautilus-file-management-properties command. File Management Preferences allows an user to configure the way nautilus looks. You can specify a default view, and select sort options and display options. You can also specify default settings for icon views and list views. OPTIONS
Nautilus follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. --help Show a summary of options. --version Show version. Other standard GNOME options not listed here are also supported. SEE ALSO
File Management Preferences documentation can be found from the "Help" menu, or by pressing the F1 key. Nautilus also has a website at http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/ AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Julian Andres Klode <jak@jak-linux.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others), based on a manpage by Fernando Ribeiro <fernando@staff.nerdgroup.org>. 05 Jan 2008 nautilus-file-management-properties(1)
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