gnome-find Commands Preferences

Andy Kahn
31st January 2001


Shell command

These are the various file related commands which can be executed from the search results dialog. Each command requires the text $files which will be replaced with the actual filenames selected in the results dialog. For the copy command, $dest must be specified to indicate the destination name of the copy.

The default command for each are listed below:

IMPORTANT: The commands specified must be non-interactive. That is, for the command to complete, they must not prompt the user for any input. This is why the default delete and copy commands specify the -f option to rm and cp.

The check button labeled "Prompt before executing commands" enables the option for gnome-find to prompt you with a dialog to confirm whether or not you wish to execute a command on the selected files. By default, this is disabled, so that commands will execute immediately.