Thanks ... when trying this, ran into a few obstacles. First I tried this: t420: for I in *.{odt}; do kde-open5 $I; done No command 'kde-open5' found, did you mean: Command 'kde-open' from package 'kde-runtime' (universe) kde-open5: command not found Next I tried this: t420: for I in *.{odt}; do kde-open $I; done Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated. please move it to /home/joe/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf manually Next I tried this: t420: sudo apt-get install kde-cli-tools [sudo] password for joe: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package kde-cli-tools Don't know what to try next ;) ------------ On Mon, November 18, 2019 10:00 pm, Brian Cluff wrote: > This is pretty rough but it might do what you want it to do, but it > could be a lot better: > > for I in *.{html,pdf,odt,doc,docx}; do kde-open5 $I; done > > Just add whatever document types to the part in the {}s and it will open > all the documents in the current directory. > > There's no limit to the number of document so be careful that your > directory doesn't contain more than a few documents. > > Brian Cluff > > > On 11/18/19 5:10 PM, Joe Lowder wrote: > >> Is there a way to scroll or scan through and view all >> documents in a directory in a manner similar to the way that I can >> scroll or scan through and view jpg images? >> >> Long ago, I found a shell script (see below) named "v" >> that allows me to do this from the command line. I go into any directory >> (folder) and type: v *jpg >> to scan through all .jpgs in that directory. >> >> Is there a way to do something similar to scroll or scan >> through a directory and view the contents of documents such as libre >> office .odt files? >> >> Here's the "v" script: >> >> >> # v open named image >> >> >> cls;ls -ltr | tail -10;echo >> >> if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then FILE=$1; else echo "Open what file? " read file; >> FILE=$file; fi >> >> >> nohup gwenview $FILE >/dev/null 2>&1 & >> >> exit --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss