After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 612795 - launching nautilus with a file path should work
launching nautilus with a file path should work
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 131259
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on: 498506
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-03-13 14:37 UTC by Alberto Ruiz
Modified: 2010-05-27 23:44 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Alberto Ruiz 2010-03-13 14:37:11 UTC 
Launching the nautilus command with a file or a list of files in the same folder as a parameter should open a nautilus window with those files selected.

At the moment nautilus forbids using a file as command line argument.

This is specially useful for the "Show in folder" action on download dialogs, which usually point to a very crowded Downloads folder and it is really hard to spot the file in question.
Comment 1 A. Walton 2010-03-14 06:29:39 UTC 
Lacks a way to tell the currently running nautilus instance to do so, aka bug #498506.
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-05-27 23:44:44 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 131259 ***