Nautilus scripts to launch diff viewer and view a particular revision

I have hacked two more nautilus scripts.

• cvs_diff_revisions - this script prompts for two revisions of a file and shows diffs them in a diff viewer.
• cvs_view_revision - this script prompts for a revisions of a file and shows it a editor.

Just put the scripts in your

~/gnome2/nautilus-scripts

directory and

> chmod 755 cvs_diff_revisions cvs_view_revision

> nautilus -q

Here are the scripts:

cvs_diff_revisions - this uses the meld diff viewer. You can use any other diff viewer in it's place.

#!/bin/bash
#
# Distributed under the terms of GNU GPL version 2
#
# http://blogs.sun.com/scblog
#

ICONPATH="`dirname $0`/cvs.xpm"

for TARGET in ${NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS}
do
    TARGETDIR=`dirname "${TARGET}"`
    TARGET=`basename "${TARGET}"`
    
    cd "${TARGETDIR}"
    REVISIONA=`zenity --list --radiolist --title="cvs diff - Select Revision A" --text="${TARGETDIR}/${TARGET}" \

--width=500 --height=700 --column "A" --column "Revisions" \`cvs log "${TARGET}" | grep "^revision" | mawk '{ print "FALSE", $2 }'\``
    if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
        if [ ! -z "${REVISIONA}" ] ; then
            REVISIONB=`zenity --list --radiolist --title="cvs diff - Select Revision B (A is ${REVISIONA})" \

--text="${TARGETDIR}/${TARGET}" --width=500 --height=700 --column "B" --column "Revisions" \`cvs log "${TARGET}" \

| grep "^revision" | grep -v ${REVISIONA}| mawk '{ print "FALSE", $2 }'\``
            if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
                if [ ! -z "${REVISIONB}" ] ; then
                    cvs update -r "${REVISIONA}" -p "${TARGET}" > "${TARGETDIR}/${TARGET}.~${REVISIONA}~"
                    cvs update -r "${REVISIONB}" -p "${TARGET}" > "${TARGETDIR}/${TARGET}.~${REVISIONB}~"
		    meld "${TARGETDIR}/${TARGET}.~${REVISIONA}~" "${TARGETDIR}/${TARGET}.~${REVISIONB}~"
                fi
            fi
        fi
    fi
done 

cvs_view_revision

#!/bin/bash
#
# Distributed under the terms of GNU GPL version 2
#
# http://blogs.sun.com/scblog
#

ICONPATH="`dirname $0`/cvs.xpm"

for TARGET in ${NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS}
do
    TARGETDIR=`dirname "${TARGET}"`
    TARGET=`basename "${TARGET}"`
    
    cd "${TARGETDIR}"
    REVISION=`zenity --list --radiolist --title="cvs view revision" --text="${TARGETDIR}/${TARGET}" \

--width=500 --height=700 --column "" --column "Revisions" \`cvs log "${TARGET}" | grep "^revision" | mawk '{ print "FALSE", $2 }'\``
    if [ $? -eq 0 -a ! -z "${REVISION}" ] ; then
        cvs update -r "${REVISION}" -p "${TARGET}" > "${TARGETDIR}/${TARGET}.~${REVISION}~"
        gedit "${TARGETDIR}/${TARGET}.~${REVISION}~"
    fi
done

Also save this cvs icon as ~/gnome2/nautilus-scripts/cvs.xpm.

I think it should be possible to build a set of scripts which more or less emulate TortoiseCVS integration with Windows Explorer. 

Copy Path in Nautilus

I recently switched to Ubuntu. Starting to like it.

Here is my first Ubuntu/Nautilus hack. Put the following python script:

#!/usr/bin/python

import pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')
import gtk
import os

# get the clipboard
clipboard = gtk.clipboard_get()

# set the clipboard text data
clipboard.set_text(os.environ['NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS'])

# make our data available to other applications
clipboard.store()

in the file:

~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/Copy Path

Now launch Nautilus, select any file(s) or folder(s) and invoke pop up menu  and select Scripts:Copy Path. The fully qualified path(s) of the file(s) or folder(s) will be copied to the clipboard.

Does anyone know a better way?