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I’m back from my vacation and this is a smallish post before we return to our regular programming (I’m full of puns 
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Rahul (my friend and guest author on this blog) introduced me to an old-but-useful trick a few days ago that I didn’t know about. It’s about customizing nautilus to display a context menu that has a few of your chosen scripts to weave their magic on the selected object. And the procedure to do this is summarized in just two steps:
- Write your script.
- Save it in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts and make it executable (chmod +x <script name>).
Of course, if you don’t know scripting the first step itself is quite daunting, but you can get a lot of pre-cooked scripts on the internet by searching for “nautilus scripts”. e.g. take a look at g-scripts homepage.
To get you started immediately, here is a crude example to open a terminal/console window in any folder/path through right-click menu:
Step 1) Write your script (any scripting language: shell, perl, python, etc):
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#!/bin/bash
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gnome-terminal --working-directory="$1"
Step 2) Save it in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts, name it as “Terminal” and make it executable.
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chmod +x Terminal
Step 3) Now, you should see a “Scripts” option in your right-click menu as shown below. Clicking on “Terminal” will open a new terminal window with the present working directory being set to the selected folder.
Note: If you don’t see the “scripts” menu option (or your script name in the extended menu), then just run
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sudo killall nautilus
Let me know if you face any problems with this or have any other questions.
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