caja-actions-new(1)

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're about to talk about caja-actions-new(1) from the caja-actions manual and honestly? it's giving low-key legend ✨

💖 NAME

caja-actions-new — create new caja actions 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS

caja-actions-new [OPTION]

🌸 DESCRIPTION

so basically, caja-actions-new makes brand new actions for the caja file manager, and the way it does it is non-interactively, straight from the command line. no clicking, no popups, no vibes-based GUI — just you, your terminal, and flags. 🫶

every action attribute gets specified through command-line options, so it's literally just you telling it what you want and it doing it. main character energy fr fr 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

🌈 Help options

• -?, -h, --help — shows the help options 💖
• --help-all — shows all the help options, the full menu, the whole buffet 🍓
• --help-output — lets you choose where the program creates the action 👑

🎀 Action-creation options

• -l, --label=LABEL — the label of the menu item. this one is mandatory, no skipping it, it's the whole point bestie 😭
• -t, --tooltip=TOOLTIP — the tooltip of the menu 🌸
• -i, --icon=ICON — the icon of the menu item. can be a filename or a GTK stock ID 🦋
• -c, --command=PATH — the path of the command ⭐
• -p, --parameters=PARAMS — the parameters of the command 🔥
• -m, --match=EXPR — a pattern to match selected files against. may include wildcards (* or ?). and listen: you must set one option for each pattern you need, so like, don't try to be cute and cram them together 💅
• -C, --match-case=PATH — ngl the manpage just says "The path command" for this one and we are respectfully not going to pretend we know more than the page does 🫠 but the option itself is right there, exactly as written
• -T, --mimetypes=EXPR — a pattern to match selected files' mimetype against. may include wildcards (* or ?), and yep, same rule: one option for each pattern you need ✨
• -f, --accept-files — set this if the selection must only contain files 📁
• -d, --accept-dirs — set this if the selection must only contain folders 📂. and heads up, if the selection can contain both types of items, you specify both --isfile and --isdir 👀
• -M, --accept-multiple-files — set this if the selection can have several items, because sometimes you're just greedy like that 💖
• -s, --scheme=SCHEME — a valid GVFS scheme where the selected files should be located. and yes, you must set one option for each scheme you need 🌈

👑 AUTHOR

okay so the lore is: caja-actions has been derived from nautilus-actions, which was written by Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo[AT]novell.com>, Frederic Ruaudel <grumz[AT]grumz.net>, Pierre Wieser <pwieser[AT]trychlos.org>, and contributors. iconic lineage honestly 🌟

the porting work to the MATE desktop environment, under the extension name caja-actions, has been done by Wolfgang Ulbrich <chat-to-me[at]raveit.de> — ate and left no crumbs 💅

and this manual page was written by Vangelis Mouhtsis <vangelis[AT]gnugr.org> for the Debian MATE Packaging Team, and may be used by others. sharing is caring fr fr 🫶

💜 LICENSING

both the caja-actions source code and this man page are licensed under the GNU General Public License (v2 or higher). no cap, that's the whole license paragraph 📜✨

reminder bestie: -l, --label=LABEL is mandatory, so don't come crying to me when it yells at you for leaving it out 😭

and that's the whole thing! this was Version 1.8.0 of the page, dated Feb 2015, from the caja-actions-new(1) manual — go forth and make actions, you absolute icon 👑💖🦋