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Nautilus Script – print all documents in folder

I had to print a lot of files lately and it became clear that opening each of them, then hitting ctrl + p takes too long, so i decided instead to look for a nautilus script that allows me to right click inside the folder and hit Print All. Since i didn't find anything (probably didn't look enough...) i built one myself.

Save the script bellow as "Print All Documents" then place it in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts

#!/bin/bash

## By Romeo - Adrian Cioaba
## romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com
## If you modify it, Please let me know.
## released under GPLv3

IFS=$'\n'

filenames=`ls`
for eachFile in $filenames
do
    case $eachFile in
        *.pdf) lpr "$eachFile"
        ;;
        *.doc) libreoffice -p "$eachFile"
        ;;
        *.docx) libreoffice -p  "$eachFile"
        ;;
        *.txt) lpr "$eachFile"
        ;;
        *.jpg) lpr "$eachFile"
        ;;
    esac
done

exit 0

Make it executable

chmod +x ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/Print\ All\ Documents

and you are good to go. When you go inside a folder, right click and under the Scripts entry you will have the option "Print All Documents"

This script can be of course tweaked to print more file types.