desktop file to process the selected files

msdobrescu · 04-22-2017, 01:26 AM

Hello,

I try to create a .desktop file to pass the selected files in Dolphin and process them in a bash script.
I use "%F" for parameter passing, but I can't really split the files list after (in the script) as the paths have spaces and I can't tell where the file paths + names end and where the space is the separator of them in the parameter list.

Is it even possible to have this working?

Thank you.

ondoho · 04-22-2017, 02:00 AM

yes.
whichever program parses the files, should be able to deal with spaces.

but please show us what you have.

msdobrescu · 04-22-2017, 02:30 AM

Hi,

I've used a script from here, altered a bit: https://gielberkers.com/convert-a-fi...-shell-script/

meaning:

Code:

for f in "$@"; do
    convertToUtf8 "$f"
done

and a desktop file like:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
Encoding=UTF-8
ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,text/plain
Icon=text
Actions=ToUTF8;

[Desktop Action ToUTF8]
Name=Convert to UTF-8
Icon=text
Exec=$HOME/.local/share/kservices5/toUTF8.sh "%F" > convert2utf8.log

The log contains:

Code:

Iterate through files and convert them to UTF-8
/home/admius/Downloads/test/non utf8.txt /home/admius/Downloads/test/utf8.txt is not UTF-8 encoded (found )
Convert  to UTF-8

Probably somewhere some quotes are missing or are too many...

Note: it looks to open one file, "non utf8.txt" and doesn't process it as it passes "/home/admius/Downloads/test/non utf8.txt /home/admius/Downloads/test/utf8.txt" to the function and due to that doesn't find the file on the provided path.

ondoho · 04-22-2017, 07:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by msdobrescu

Code:

for f in "$@"; do
    convertToUtf8 "$f"
done

too many quotes.
"$@" means that the for loop treats the whole string as 1 argument, so "$f" is "/home/admius/Downloads/test/non utf8.txt /home/admius/Downloads/test/utf8.txt"

this is tricky; i suspect you cannot use a for loop, but rather some sort of

Code:

echo $@ | while read line
do
    .....
done

not sure if it will work like this.
you need to do some troubleshooting to see what konqueror actually passes to the script, and if you can force it to do what you want.
i know there's alternatives to "%F" - maybe %f or %u or %U...

msdobrescu · 04-22-2017, 09:33 AM

I have complicated things a bit by storing all the files in a directory containing spaces in name, "my test".
I also set two files named:

"non utf-8.txt"
"utf8.txt"

Without quotes in the loop, Iget the following log:

Code:

Iterate through files and convert them to UTF-8
/home/admius/Downloads/my
/home/admius/Downloads/my is not UTF-8 encoded (found binary)
Convert  to UTF-8
test/non
test/non is not UTF-8 encoded (found )
Convert  to UTF-8
utf-8.txt
utf-8.txt is not UTF-8 encoded (found )
Convert  to UTF-8
/home/admius/Downloads/my
/home/admius/Downloads/my is not UTF-8 encoded (found binary)
Convert  to UTF-8
test/utf8.txt
test/utf8.txt is not UTF-8 encoded (found )
Convert  to UTF-8

It creates an empty new file, named "utf-8.txt".

And it does not correct the non UTF-8 file, as it works with wrong paths, obviously.

I don't care how, or if it is following the above code at all, is this even possible, i.e. selecting some files and converting them when spaces are in the names of the files and their directory paths?

ondoho · 04-22-2017, 12:18 PM

i told you, you need a 'while read x' sort of structure.
where x is a line of output from some command.
but you need to find out what sort of output is sent to your script.
do some troubleshooting, and whenever you post some output here, also post the script that produced it.
you just need to try different things.