2009/2/26 Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com>:
> I'm trying to copy the full path of a file from xfce4's file manager
> Thunar so I can paste it into a command line program.  The way I found
> to do this was with the "Configure custom actions..." option like
> this:
>
> echo %f | xcopy -selection c
>
> I can then paste the path, but there is a newline character at the end
> which messes things up.  Is there a better way to do this, or can I
> strip the newline character?
>
> - Grant
>

If this newline comes from the echo command you can suppress it with "-n".

echo -n %f | xcopy -selection c

-- 
Regards,
Daniel

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