bashzenity

Directory select with Zenity


How to use zenity to only allow the user to select certain directory.

my code works file to filter out certain files types

zenity --title "Pick The Software Folder " --file-selection  --file-  filter=""*.zip" "*.sql" "*.tgz"" --directory

I would like the code to only allow the user to be able to select certain directory's

 zenity --title "Pick The Software Folder " --file-selection  --file-  filter=""Download" "Home" "Desktop"" --directory

Solution

  • This seems to work for me:

    zenity  --file-selection --title="Choose a directory" --file-filter=""Downloads" "Desktop"" --directory
    

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