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>> I'm trying to copy the full path of a file from xfce4's file manager |
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>> Thunar so I can paste it into a command line program. The way I found |
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>> to do this was with the "Configure custom actions..." option like |
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>> this: |
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>> echo %f | xcopy -selection c |
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>> I can then paste the path, but there is a newline character at the end |
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>> which messes things up. Is there a better way to do this, or can I |
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>> strip the newline character? |
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>> - Grant |
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> If this newline comes from the echo command you can suppress it with "-n". |
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> echo -n %f | xcopy -selection c |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Daniel |
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Ah perfect, thanks guys. Also the program is called xclip, not xcopy. |
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Sorry about that. |
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- Grant |
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