View source for Nautilus actions, right click execute script

[[Category:Ubuntu]]
[[Category:Ubuntu Gnome]]
[[Category:201809]]

Add 'Scripts' option to Nautilus. After adding this script you can right-click, go to 'Scripts' and then 'exec'.

You can then disable the Nautilus script-dialog for executable files and pick your text editor as the default application. This dialog is especially annoying for NTFS drives where every text file is considered executable.

= Configure =

Create the 'Scripts' directory, sub-folders are also possible and will appear as sub-menu-items:

<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/
</syntaxhighlight>

Create the script file, the filename is what will be used in the right-click menu. The script will run in a separate terminal window. It will also work for multiple scripts, one at the time, after each other:

<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
gedit ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/exec
</syntaxhighlight>

<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
	#!/bin/bash
	while read -r fn; do
	  if [ -n "${fn}" ]; then
	    gnome-terminal -e "${fn}"	    
	  fi
	done <<< "${NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS}"
</syntaxhighlight>

Make the script-file executable:

<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
chmod +x ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/exec
</syntaxhighlight>

= See also = 
* https://fedoramagazine.org/integrating-scripts-nautilus/