Ubuntu: drag files/folders onto perl script and get their names in @ARGV

westmj has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Two closely related questions below for the wise...

I know how to run perl scripts at the Linux command line, e.g.

$ perl -e 'foreach $arg (@ARGV) { print "$arg\n";}' 1 2
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Then on Windows desktop, I can go and fiddle the registry to allow me to drag and drop folder and file icons onto the perl script icon, and their fully qualified path names are in @ARGV, which would print out as above, or I can use in the program for reading, etc.

(1) How do I this latter drag and drop on Ubuntu? And hey, Mac instructions will be great too, but I plan to look into Platypus, and that may do it.

Next, I may have screwed up something related. Under file properties for my .pl files, the File type is "Perl script", but the 'open with' is jEdit, my preferred text editor. If I try to 'customize' back to opening with perl, I can not find the perl program (I guess as a .desktop file), so I assume I need a custom command line. In windows, that would be something like:

C:\path\perl '%f' %*
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if memory serves, to pass the target script name and the passed parameters.

(2) What would be the proper custom line here? Or a proper .desktop file that passes the dropped icons or passed parameters?

Thanks very much.

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Re: Ubuntu: drag files/folders onto perl script and get their names in @ARGV by NetWallah (Canon) on Sep 16, 2016 at 04:10 UTC
This question relates to the Ubuntu Unity launcher and desktop , and is not about perl, so is somewhat off-topic here. Nevertheless, this article on launching the sublime editor under unity, with drag-and-drop capability seems to be very similar to what you are after. ...it is unhealthy to remain near things that are in the process of blowing up. man page for WARP, by Larry Wall	[reply]
Re^2: Ubuntu: drag files/folders onto perl script and get their names in @ARGV by westmj (Initiate) on Sep 16, 2016 at 07:40 UTC
Thank you for that reply! I will look into it. Looks on point.	[reply]
Re: Ubuntu: drag files/folders onto perl script and get their names in @ARGV by westmj (Initiate) on Sep 16, 2016 at 19:52 UTC
Just for the curious, and those google searchers out there, I got things worked out. (trusty)westmj@localhost:~/GoogleDrive/perl$ cat hello_world.pl #! /usr/bin/perl print "Hello, World!\n\@ARGV:\n"; foreach $arg (@ARGV) { print "$arg\n"; } warn "Press 'Enter' or 'Return' to finish.\n"; <STDIN> (trusty)westmj@localhost:~/GoogleDrive/perl$ perl hello_world.pl 1 2 Hello, World! @ARGV: 1 2 Press 'Enter' or 'Return' to finish. (trusty)westmj@localhost:~/GoogleDrive/perl$ cat hello_world_desktop.d +esktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Hello_World_desktop Comment=Execute by dropping file onto Exec=/usr/bin/perl /home/westmj/GoogleDrive/perl/hello_world.pl '%F' #Icon=/home/alex/Pictures/icon.png Terminal=true Type=Application #Categories=Application MimeType=application/vnd.ms-excel;application/vnd.openxmlformats-offic +edocument.spreadsheetml.sheet;inode/directory;text/plain;text/x-scrip +t.perl; [download] Dragging two perl files onto the .desktop file works, the output in a new terminal is: `Hello, World! @ARGV: /home/westmj/GoogleDrive/perl/modify.pl /home/westmj/GoogleDrive/perl/Open_with_NotePad-attenders.pl Press 'Enter' or 'Return' to finish.` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]