Nautilus Custom Scripts

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So Nautilus will let you create custom scripts to run through it. You need to create this directory:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts

Then in there, create your scripts. Here's a sample that spits out the number of items in a directory:

#!/bin/bash

number=$(ls -l | tail -n +2 | wc -l)


zenity --title "Number of Files" --notification --text "There are $number items in this directory"

Save this as an executable and then in Nautilus we can run it against a directory.

Then we get this:

I don't know how many uses this will have since it's usually easier to do this through cli but it's a nice feature.