It had long bugged me that I always used Bash for Nautilus scripts, so I
have created a boiler-plate Nautilus script in Python (attached), which
displays the following in a whizzy little GTK TextView window:
1. Command-line arguments passed in by Nautilus
2. A couple of interesting environment variables, notably
NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS
3. PWD environment variable
4. Walks the list of selected files, doing an ls -l on each one
Drop it into ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts and make it executable, then
give it a spin:
1. Select a bunch of files and directories in Nautilus
2. File -> Scripts -> Show Nautilus Parameters
Douglas.
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#!/usr/bin/python
import os
import subprocess
import sys
import pygtk
import gtk
pygtk.require('2.0')
class TextviewWindow:
string = ""
window = None
def add(self, text):
self.string += text
def addLine(self, text):
self.string += text + "\n"
def displayWindow(self):
self.textbuffer.set_text(self.string)
self.window.show()
gtk.main()
def close_application(self, widget):
gtk.main_quit()
def __init__(self, string="", title="Text Viewer", width=640, height=480):
self.string = string
# The window
self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
self.window.set_default_size(width, height)
self.window.connect("destroy", self.close_application)
self.window.set_title(title)
self.window.set_border_width(10)
# A VBox that contains:
# ScrolledWindow
# HBox for the buttons at the bottom
vbox = gtk.VBox(False, 0)
self.window.add(vbox)
vbox.show()
# The ScrolledWindow that contains the TextView
scrolledWindow = gtk.ScrolledWindow()
scrolledWindow.set_policy(gtk.POLICY_AUTOMATIC, gtk.POLICY_AUTOMATIC)
scrolledWindow.show()
vbox.pack_start(scrolledWindow)
# TextView
textview = gtk.TextView()
self.textbuffer = textview.get_buffer()
scrolledWindow.add(textview)
textview.set_editable(False)
textview.set_cursor_visible(False)
textview.set_left_margin(10)
textview.set_right_margin(10)
textview.show()
# HBox for the row of buttons at the bottom
# Close
hbox = gtk.HBox(False, 10)
hbox.set_border_width(10)
vbox.pack_start(hbox, False, True, 0)
hbox.show()
# Close button
button = gtk.Button("Close")
button.connect("clicked", self.close_application)
hbox.pack_end(button, False, False, 0)
button.set_flags(gtk.CAN_DEFAULT)
button.grab_default()
button.show()
if __name__ == "__main__":
textview = TextviewWindow(title="Parameters passed in by Nautilus")
# Display the command-line args and a few of the environment variables set
by Nautilus
textview.addLine("Command-line args = " + str(sys.argv[1:]))
textview.addLine("NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS = " +
str(os.environ.get("NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS")))
textview.addLine("NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI = " +
str(os.environ.get("NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI")))
textview.addLine("PWD = " + str(os.environ.get("PWD")))
textview.addLine("")
# Assemble a list of the files
nautilus_script_selected_file_paths =
str(os.environ.get("NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS"))
files = nautilus_script_selected_file_paths.split("\n")
# Trim off the last element, which is always empty -
NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS ends with a \n
files = files[:-1]
# A worked example, taking a long listing of the selected files and
directories
for file in files:
# Assemble the command line (quoting the file variable, as it may contain
spaces)
command = "ls -l '" + file + "'"
captured = subprocess.Popen(command, shell=True,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.read()
# ls provides a trailing \n
textview.add(captured)
textview.displayWindow()
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