Re: [Ranger-users] Bulk-anything command

[John Z.]

> > Hi,
> >     is there a way to execute a command on selected files, much like
> >     bulkrename does?
> >     Right now, the only solution that comes to me is faking it, somehow,
> >     with sh and xargs.
> > 
> >     Cheers.
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I typically do:
> 
>   :shell for f in %s; do <mycommand> "$f"; done
> 
> you could easily bind this to a key with:
> 
>   :map X console -p22 shell for f in %%s; do  "$f"; done
> 
> then, to run a command, you can type e.g. Xecho<ENTER>
> 
> Regards,
> hut


Thanks for the tip, I ended doing something similar:

    :shell echo %s | tr " " "\n" | xargs -L 1 <command>.

I figure your way is less roundabout tho, but you know that thing when
you're stubborn and just really want to make it work :-D