Caja scripts for context menu actions in Linux Mint Mate

readme.md

In Linux Mint Mate (with Caja file manager), store file under ~/.config/caja/scripts/ (in my case subfolder ~/.config/caja/scripts/pandoc-convert). The example here uses $CAJA_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS, but I couldn't get this to work on my machine.

jpylyzer.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Analyze file with jpylyzer, display result with
# default text editor

# I/O stuff
fileIn=$1
fileOut=/tmp/"$fileIn".xml

# Viewer - default text editor (should work across most Linux flavors)
viewer=xdg-open

# Run Jpylyzer
jpylyzer "$fileIn" > "$fileOut"

# Display result
$viewer "$fileOut"

# Alternative would be to use Zenity:
# jpylyzer "$fileIn" |zenity --text-info --title "Jpylyzer output $fileIn" --width=640 --height=480
 

md2docx.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Convert Markdown file to docx using pandoc

fileIn=$1
fileOut=$fileIn.docx

pandoc -s -S --ascii -N --toc-depth=2 "$fileIn" -o "$fileOut"

"The example here [broken link] uses $CAJA_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS, but I couldn't get this to work on my machine."
I had been trying to use:

for f in "$CAJA_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS"
do
   <something with $f>
done

but it did not work properly for multiple selected files. But the following works:

echo "$CAJA_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS"|while read f
do
   <something with $f>
done