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pedherall

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Registered: 2017-02-11

Posts: 12

Thunar custom action for hidden and unihiden files.

I want to do a thunar custom action for hidden and unhidden files.
For hide files I use “ echo %N  >> .hidden” and it works.
For unhidden I use “sed -i s/n%//gi /.hidden” and it doesn’t work.
Could you tell me any idea of  how can I unhidden files with a thunar custom action.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,705

Re: Thunar custom action for hidden and unihiden files.

Hello and welcome.

“sed -i s/n%//gi /.hidden”

A couple of issue with this command: first, it should be "%n" and secondly, "/.hidden" is the .hidden file in the system root.

Try these commands instead:
Hide:

echo %n >> %d/.hidden

UnHide:

sed -i '/%n/d' %d/.hidden

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pedherall

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Registered: 2017-02-11

Posts: 12

Re: Thunar custom action for hidden and unihiden files.

Thank you very much, ToZ