Perform commands on selected items in Midnight Commander

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How can I perform a command on the selected items ?

for example calling vim, or gimp for the 5 text or image files selected.

I tried to make use of the inlined command line at the bottom, but it doesn't take my selection into account

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Press F2 for user menu and then choose Do something on tagged files or press @. In popup window you can provide your command.

It is important to notice that for each file command will be executed separately. It will be something like:

for file in files:
   COMMAND file

not

COMMAND file1 file2

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Use Shift-F5 instead (or Shift-F6 for renaming) – the dialog will have the to field filled with current file's name (without the path).

Sadly those combinations not work in certain circumstances. No idea if it depends on MC build, terminal or some used library. So I also added this in ~/.mc/menu as an alternative:

5       Copy
        read -e -i "%f" -p 'Copy file : ' name
        [[ "$name" && "$name" != "%f" ]] && cp "%f" "$name"

6       Rename
        read -e -i "%f" -p 'Rename file : ' name
        [[ "$name" && "$name" != "%f" ]] && mv "%f" "$name"

Then I just select the file, hit F2, 5 (or 6 for renaming) then edit the name and press Enter. It requires bash 4 or newer, due to the read's -i option.

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It works for me now. I am using

GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.21

strace wait on long time

connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(6011),
  sin_addr=inet_addr("x.x.x.x")}, 16) = ? ERESTARTSYS
  (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set)'

I tried this:

# hostname

use this for /etc/hosts:

nameofhost=hostname

add this $nameofhost to the /etc/hosts on line starting with

127.0.0.1 localhost ... $nameofhost

Cheers!

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