It is useful for scripting and programs doing integration (such as Gnome Do) if they instead of performing file operations themselves could relay the task to nautilus.

Compare file-roller: You can tell file-roller to unpack or pack an archive from the command line. For the user this is a visible process.

This has several benefits:
* User visible process
* User-recognizable process. "Aha, it copies files", "Aha, it unpacks"
* Implemented in only one place'

(All these benefits have many sub-benefits, for example the single implementation means that the integration tool can handle things it would otherwise not implement, like any URI to any URI copies trash:///thisfile -> file:///.. etc)


This feature request requests a nautilus command, or a tool called something like "nautilus helper" that would allow copy and move operations expressed as command lines, and would present the progress of these operations using nautilus' interface.

natuilus-helper --copy=.. --dest=..

Alternatively natuilus wrappers around the gvfs-copy etc scripts.