Get file path of the highlighted files using nautilus script

Question

I want to get file paths of the files that are selected. I have being try this for the entire day now with no luck.

For example by clicking on the script "filename.py", I would like to get that path of the highlighted directory.

Answer 1

Looking at the documentation of Nautilus scripts you can get the paths to selected files using the environment variable NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS . In Python you can get its value using os.environ and then later you can use os.path 's functions to do operations on the paths:

import os
paths = os.environ['NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS'].splitlines()
for p in paths:
    if os.path.isdir(p):
        print p