NAME

       showinfilemanager - open the file manager and select files in it

SYNOPSIS

       showinfilemanager [-h] [–version] [–verbose] [–debug] [URIs ...]

DESCRIPTION

       showinfilemanager  opens  the system file manager and optionally selects files in it.  The
       point is not to open  the  files,  but  to  select  them  in  the  file  manager,  thereby
       highlighting the files and allowing the user to quickly do something with them.

       For  file  managers  that  do  not  support  specifying files to select, this program will
       instruct them to display the directory the file is found in.

       URIs   URIs or paths of files or directories.

       -h, –help
              Display help message.

       –version
              Show program’s version number and exit.

       -f, –file-manager FILE_MANAGER
              File manager to run

       -s, –select-folder
              Select folder instead of displaying its contents.  By default, when a URI  or  path
              is  a  directory and not a file, the directory itself is shown in the file manager.
              This option changes the default and selects the folder, displaying it in its parent
              directory.

       –verbose
              Display command being run to stdout.

       –debug Output debugging information to stdout.

EXAMPLES

       showinfilemanager ~/myfile.txt
              Open the system file manager and select ~/myfile.txt in the user’s home directory.

       showinfilemanager -f dolphin *.txt
              Open  the  dolphin  file manager and select all the files with extension txt in the
              current directory.

       showinfilemanager D:\Documents\*.docx
              Open the system file manager and select all the Word  documents  in  the  Documents
              directory on the D: drive.

       showinfilemanager -s /Users/*
              Open  the system file manager and select all the files and directories in the Users
              folder

       showinfilemanager file:///home/user/first%20file.txt file:///home/user/second%20file.txt
              Open the system file manager and select `first file.txt' and `second  file.txt'  in
              the user’s home directory.

       showinfilemanager /etc/hosts /home/user/.bashrc
              Open  the system file manager and select the hosts file in one file manager window,
              and the user’s .bashrc file in another.

AUTHORS

       Damon Lynch
       damonlynch@gmail.com

BUGS

       Submit bug reports online at: <https://github.com/damonlynch/showinfilemanager/issues>

SEE ALSO

       Full documentation and sources at: <https://github.com/damonlynch/showinfilemanager>