gholdzhang / filebrowser

This is a bash whiptail file selection menu sample code

Whiptail bash script directory browser and File Selector

filebrowse.sh written by Claude Pageau

RPI Quick Install or Upgrade

Step 1 With mouse left button highlight curl command in code box below. Right click mouse in highlighted area and Copy.
Step 2 On RPI putty SSH or terminal session right click, select paste then Enter to download and run script.

curl -L https://raw.github.com/pageauc/FileBrowser/master/setup.sh | bash

This will download and run the setup.sh script. See Github FileBrowser project

Description

This is sample bash code for a whiptail file browser that allows navigating through a directory a structure. If a file matching the filext variable file type is selected it will Return the filename and path of the selected file. This can be used in your code to do further processing. Note The sample defaults to jpg file extension but this can be customize per your requirements using filext variable.

This Demo whiptail demo can be used in your own bash scripts per the filebrowse.sh example code.

The variables returned from the FileBrowser() function are

Filename : $filename
Directory: $filepath

You can perform commands on

• Just file name eg. cp $filename $filename.bak
• Just directory path eg. mv $filepath $filepath_prev
• Both for full file path eg. rm $filepath/$filename

How to Customize

Use nano to edit filebrowse.sh

cd ~/filebrowse
nano filebrowse.sh

Edit the variables below for your requirements

startdir="/home/pi"
filext='jpg'    
menutitle="$filext File Selection Menu"

ctrl-x y to save and exit nano editor

How to Run Demo

To Run demo filebrowse.sh

cd ~/filebrowse
./filebrowse.sh

1 Select Back to navigate to a previous directory.
2 Select a directory entry to navigate to that folder and display list of files/folders.
3 Select a file name that matches the filext variable. If file type is valid
the file name will be returned
4 Use Arrow, page up/dn or tab key to navigate within menu
5 Esc key exits with no selection.

See filebrowse.sh code for more details.

Regards Claude ...