Hi Ross, You could try using zenity to prompt the user for the directory, and then call rsync.
DIR=`zenity --file-selection --directory --filename="$DEFAULT_DIR" --title="Please choose a directory..."`; Cheers. Steve Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I was hoping to be able to configure a nautilus-action item that would > take a parameter. I have my portable music player and my music > library, and I'm copying from my library to my player. Often times, I > want to update the files that are there, but would like to save the > time of recopying everything. rsync is perfect for this job. > > So I wrote a nautilus-action that can rsync to a fixed directory. Is > there any way I can have it prompt the user for a targer when I choose > "rsync to..." from my menu? > > Another alternative would be if I could drag a collection of files to > a target directory and have nautilus use rsync to do the copy, butit > seemed easier with nautilus-actions. > > Any hints? > > Please keep me CCed as I'm not subscribed, thanks! > -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
