Running a command on selected files

[Stephan Arts]

On Dec 2, 2007 12:07 PM, Przemyslaw Gawronski <pgg at tanren.pl> wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to xfce and this is my first post here, so hello to
> everyone.
>
> I'm missing one feature in xfce's file manager which I found very useful
> in ROX-Filer which I used for the last few years, that is running a
> shell command on selected files. I would very often run a simple command
> like:
>
> for f in $@ ; do convert -resize 25% $f small-$f ; done
>
> or some other, but the files were selected in the file manager hitting
> '!' key would prompt for a command to execute on the selected file/es.
>
> Is there something similar in xfce's file manager?

They are called 'Custom Actions', you can find them under the 'edit' menu.

>
> Thanks for help
>
> Przemek

HTH,
Stephan