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“Send To” in Linux for Nautilus
Posted by Srijith R in linux, shell scripting on August 10, 2010
It’s been a common practice among the windows users to right click and search for “Send To” option when a file needs to copied to the USB or any other Drive.
Why spare me, even i used to do this while using windows, when to my astonishment i found that there exists no such option in the default window (“Nautilus”) in Ubuntu. So i thought of making one for my convenience.
Nautilus supports user scripts inside it. This can be easily embedded into the manager by inserting it into the folder ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ folder where ~ stands for the shortcut for home folder.
I used zenity ( a in build gnome dialog box) to get the radio box for selecting the drive to copy to.
The Send to function looks like this
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How to Format a Usb in Linux
There are two methods of formatting a usb in linux that I use.
- The first method is using gparted (or parted non gui version of gparted). This is an easy gui interface that uses shell commands as backend. It is easy to do it.
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