On 13/06/17 06:39, Steeve McCauley wrote: > I searched google and the bug and list archives for coreutils but couldn't > find any mention of support for local or non-local file URIs, > > file:///foo/bar > file://remote.baz/foo/bar > > has there ever been any discussion of support for file URIs in coreutils? > > I often copy files into the clipboard (using fedora 25 with gnome shell > 3.22.3) and then have to manually remove the file URI at the command line > to remove the file:/// part.
Note gnome shell has the "paste filenames" feature, when you've selected and copied file(s) in the nautilus browser, though is a little awkward to access. You can use right click in gnome terminal to access the menu, or (with the menu bar enabled) Alt+e f <return>. There doesn't seem to be a way to assign a shortcut to this function. I'd log a feature request to do that with the gnome folks, as that would be a simple and relatively safe way to achieve what you want. I'm not sure coreutils could support file:// directly due to the clash with a network file server named 'file' or a directory named 'file:' I see that xdg-open supports file:// urls though that's quite a specialised tool. It's also worth noting the recent proposal to have ls output clickable links which could use file:// resulting in gnome terminal opening the default application when the file links were ctrl clicked. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-05/msg00000.html cheers, Pádraig.
