I program quite a bit in other languages, but am somewhat new to bash,
so this may not be the most elegant program, but i'm having fun learning
it!
Anyway, i put this in ~/Choices/SendTo as tar_rox
In rox-filer, if you select several files or dirs and "Send To" tar_rox,
it'll tar them up in the same directory w/o the entire path to the
files/dirs. (any structure w/i the dir will be preserved).
I have to go outside (ah!) now, but i'll add prompting for filename as a
learn a bit more. Then probaly a pipe for sylpheed...
The if chunk's purpose is to strip the filenames off the arguments,
since they come in with full paths, and to
find the path of the files (since pwd is ~/).
Thought this might be of interest to some, and any bash(ing) comments
are welcome!
eric
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#!/bin/bash
#xmessage $@
FILEPATH=`pwd` #will be reset to files' path if needed
echo $@ | grep -q /
if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
FILENAMES=''
for item in $@; do
let count=0
if [[ `echo $item | cut -c1` = '/' ]] ; then
let count=1
fi
VAR='1'
while [[ $VAR != '' ]]; do
let count=count+1
VAR=`echo $item | cut -d/ -f$count`
done
FILEPATH=`echo $item | cut -d/ -f1-$((count-2))`
FILENAMES=$FILENAMES` echo " "``echo $item | cut -d/ -f$((count-1))`
done
else
FILENAMES=$@
fi
echo $FILEPATH
cd $FILEPATH
#xmessage `tar -cvf tmp.tar $FILENAMES`
tar -cvf tmp.tar $FILENAMES
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