Re: How to scroll through and view documents ??

Speaking from experience, it's always a mad rush to press ctrl-c when you
run that in the wrong directory or with the wrong parameters 🙃


On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 12:00 AM Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:

> This is pretty rough but it might do what you want it to do, but it
> could be a lot better:
>
> for I in *.{html,pdf,odt,doc,docx}; do kde-open5 $I; done
>
> Just add whatever document types to the part in the {}s and it will open
> all the documents in the current directory.
>
> There's no limit to the number of document so be careful that your
> directory doesn't contain more than a few documents.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 11/18/19 5:10 PM, Joe Lowder wrote:
> > Is there a way to scroll or scan through and view all
> > documents in a directory in a manner similar to the way
> > that I can scroll or scan through and view jpg images?
> >
> > Long ago, I found a shell script (see below) named "v"
> > that allows me to do this from the command line.
> > I go into any directory (folder) and type: v *jpg <E>
> > to scan through all .jpgs in that directory.
> >
> > Is there a way to do something similar to scroll or scan
> > through a directory and view the contents of documents
> > such as libre office .odt files?
> >
> > Here's the "v" script:
> >
> > # v open named image
> >
> > cls;ls -ltr | tail -10;echo
> >
> > if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then FILE=$1; else echo "Open what file? "
> > read file; FILE=$file; fi
> >
> > nohup gwenview $FILE >/dev/null 2>&1 &
> >
> > exit
> >
> >
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