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midnight-commmander question
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| Troy Piggins 2007-02-19, 1:21 am |
| Firstly I'll apologise - I have no idea where to post this, so
c.u.s was my first port of call. If there is a more relevant
group, please let me know.
I have a directory containing a lot of files. I want to pass the
filenames from some of them through a bash script I've written.
Unfortunately there is no pattern to make processing them obvious
from the commandline, and there are enough of them to make typing
in their filenames by hand painful.
I was thinking it is very simple to tag files with midnight
commander, but once tagged I am not sure how to pass the
filenames to my script. It is the filenames I want passed, not
piping the body of them.
I see once I've tagged the files, hitting 'F9' to get the menu,
'F2' for 'user menu', then '@' for 'Do something on the tagged
files' but I have the feeling that pipes them.
Any ideas?
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| Bill Marcum 2007-02-19, 7:20 am |
| On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:44:57 +1000, Troy Piggins
<usenet-0702@piggo.com> wrote:
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> Firstly I'll apologise - I have no idea where to post this, so
> c.u.s was my first port of call. If there is a more relevant
> group, please let me know.
>
> I have a directory containing a lot of files. I want to pass the
> filenames from some of them through a bash script I've written.
> Unfortunately there is no pattern to make processing them obvious
> from the commandline, and there are enough of them to make typing
> in their filenames by hand painful.
>
> I was thinking it is very simple to tag files with midnight
> commander, but once tagged I am not sure how to pass the
> filenames to my script. It is the filenames I want passed, not
> piping the body of them.
>
Ctrl-X t or %t or %s. See F1, "contents", "Shell command line" or "Macro
substitution", if your version of mc includes the help file.
> I see once I've tagged the files, hitting 'F9' to get the menu,
> 'F2' for 'user menu', then '@' for 'Do something on the tagged
> files' but I have the feeling that pipes them.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender. You stand convicted of
sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want.
-- Tobias Smollet
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| Troy Piggins 2007-02-19, 7:15 pm |
| * Bill Marcum is quoted & my replies are inline below :
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:44:57 +1000, Troy Piggins
> <usenet-0702@piggo.com> wrote:
> Ctrl-X t or %t or %s. See F1, "contents", "Shell command line" or "Macro
> substitution", if your version of mc includes the help file.
Excellent. Thankyou.
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