How can I start Nautilus's "File Operations" GUI from the command line?
My goal is to include this in a Nautilus script.
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2I'm not sure I understand the purpose/point.– RolandiXorJul 7, 2011 at 3:06
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why don't you just use 'cp' command in bash? if you want to visualize a transfer you can use zenity progress bar. something like 'zenity --progress --text="Transfering files .." --title="Transfer begun"' would work. for more info on zenity look at manpage and the links : ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-306515.html ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-183228.html library.gnome.org/users/zenity/stable/…– gourgiJul 24, 2011 at 21:04
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@gourgi I want it to integrate with the progress indicator for any transfers I may have already started via Nautilus.– ændrükJul 25, 2011 at 15:43
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The short answer is, you can't. Nautilus is not built to allow that sort of thing and you can go through the source code of nautilus and look at the file copy/move sections to see how it works.
Part of this lack of integration was the motivation behind the progress indicator design. It would replace the nautilus progress window and several other progress inconsistencies and allow multiple programs to show their progress to the user in the same way:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/ProgressIndication
More work and advocacy for these new designs would help, allowing integration of all sorts of tools.
answered Aug 9, 2011 at 12:19
From a discussion in irc://irc.gnome.org#nautilus, I can say that the current version of Nautilus do not expose methods for file operation on D-Bus, but version 3.0 will do, so the answer should be
you can't, now, but you will in the future
Apparently this is now supported; at least the following seems to work under 12.04:
qdbus org.gnome.Nautilus /org/gnome/Nautilus org.gnome.Nautilus.FileOperations.CopyFile "file:///source/directory" "*" "file:///destination/directory" ""
where /source/directory is the absolute path to your source directory, * is the glob for file[s] to copy, /destination/directory is your destination directory and the last "" is for destination file name. Note that you need to have the last one there even if it's empty as in here, to fulfill the method signature. Also, if you specify a target name and have multiple source files, they'll all get copied to that one destination file, giving an overwrite prompt for each file after the first one (which may or may not be what you want).
answered Jun 30, 2012 at 19:22
