Hi; It was over a year ago when I last used it --- FC4 I think. On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 19:31 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote: > On date Saturday 2006-11-25 12:30:53 -0500, William Case, wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I know there is a way or a command or something, which can be used to > > insert the current path into a terminal command. But, I forget and > > can't find it again. > > > > e.g. Using the file browser I find a file I am looking for, > > say /usr/applicationfile/foo. Now in the gterminal (open at the same > > time) I want to $ cat 'foundfile/foo'. How do I automatically > > insert /usr/applicationfile/foo > > > > Remind me how, please ?? > > Not sure about what you want. > As I remember, if I had gone to a directory or file using nautilus file browser and decided to do something at a command line, I could open a terminal and insert the current *nautilus* working director into the bash command. If I remember I had a script (which I have lost) bound to a key that would do the insertion for me. An alias also worked. I.E. I believe there was an environmental constant something like NAUTILUS_CURRENT_WORKING_DIRECTORY that was used. In any case, I am half way there with the right click 'Open Terminal'. If I have selected a directory in nautilus and then right click 'Open Terminal' the terminal opens with [user at machine 'nautilus selected directory]$ so the command line is finding the path for the NAUTILUS_CURRENT_WORKING_DIRECTORY somewhere. I just can't find it. > You may check the $PWD environment variable (Print Working Directory), > or the pwd corresponding command, that return the current path. > > E.g.: > $ cd ~/foo > $ pwd > /home/username/foo > $ basename $PWD > foo > > HTH > Cheers -- Regards Bill _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
