2009/2/26 Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com>: > I'm trying to copy the full path of a file from xfce4's file manager > Thunar so I can paste it into a command line program. The way I found > to do this was with the "Configure custom actions..." option like > this: > > echo %f | xcopy -selection c > > I can then paste the path, but there is a newline character at the end > which messes things up. Is there a better way to do this, or can I > strip the newline character? > > - Grant >
If this newline comes from the echo command you can suppress it with "-n". echo -n %f | xcopy -selection c -- Regards, Daniel