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R-S-H · Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 490

Hi,

I want to select different files (sorted in a predefined list) shown in a previous opened ROX filer window from within a bash script.

Is this possible, and how?

Thanks,

RSH

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 888

R-S-H,

I haven't tried this but perhaps something could be done with the SOAP feature of rox.

http://rox.sourceforge.net/Manual/Manual/Manual.html#soap

Maybe this part - "Copy(From, To, [Leafname, Quiet]) Copy each file in the array From to the directory To........"

Regards,
s

R-S-H · Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 490

Hi seaside.

Yeah, I've found already an example for this in a script of your SFS-Exec (the script that opens ROX filer showing only the SFS files in SFS directory)

Option 'Filter' or ?'Filters'? unfortunately seems not to be able to filter a list of files (except *.sfs etc. - but that would show all of the .sfs files).

I thought about to filter about 35 files from a directory that contains about 800 files. Would have been nice to get a ROX filer window opened with an preselected selection of different files.

However, thanks for your reply to this.

RSH

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 888

R-S-H,

I'm not exactly sure what you have in mind. A group of user-selected files or preselected? At any rate, one more idea-

Perhaps you could us bash/find to select and copy files to NEWDIR directory and then open it "rox -d NEWDIR".

Regards,
s

Rattlehead · Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 240 Location: Madrid, Spain

Not the neatest way to do it, but you could also 'robotize' the whole process with Xdotool, making a loop that goes

pick first item on the list
keypress / in Rox
type the file name
keypress / again
keypress space
(end of loop)

The whole selection process will then happen 'in your face', which can be regarded as lame or sci-fi-like, depending on the situation I guess Confused

Also, it depends on the number files you usually want to select. The typing is not instant, so if the amount is big...

Just an idea

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2321

Don't mix cli and gui together -what you propose is a bad idea. Just use nice shell to do what you want...

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 5045 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Trying to get info. from GUI`s that aren`t designed for it is pointless.
Geany, rxvt, GtkDialog, etc. With rxvt you can redirect some output to a file.
You can`t scrape Geany`s edit box for text, you can only read it`s files.
But if Geany`s file is not saved... Then the file`s not up to date.

nilsonmorales · Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 581 Location: El Salvador

http://hatteras.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/copiar-o-mover-un-archivo-a-cualquier-directorio-con-un-script/ maybe give a clue

tallboy · Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 455 Location: Oslo, Norway

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R-S-H · Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 490

Hi.

Thanks for all the replies.

Since a picture is telling more than a 1000 words - this how the ROX filer window should look like, when opened by a script (as an example).

The files are listed in a text file. I just need to either deselect a few files manually or to add a few files to this selection manually.

I've already thought about any use of xdotool for this, but can't see any solution how to tell xdotool to select a specific file in a ROX filer window.

RSH

tallboy · Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 455 Location: Oslo, Norway

BTW, the Linux commands available in puppy, are not the full versions, but limited versions from Busybox. It is possible that a perfectly valid Linux command string will not give the intended results, when used in puppy.

For a full set, you must download and install 'coreutils', but be prepared for some strange results if the old commands are not completely removed. Busybox (or maybe X) may crash.

Take a look at this link for some versions of code:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-unix-find-move-all-mp3-file.html

tallboy