[Solved]Can sox use thunar's synatax to add wavs from within a folder?

Question

Sorry I renamed this topic to be more specific to the issue(re-edit: oops that was a terrible subject title earlier I must've rushed when editing.)
NOTE:A workable solution is in my last post...
Ok I'm trying to configure Thunar to run a simple script(basically an executable text file with a string using sox to concatenate a series of wavs within the working directory and referenced within .bashrc with a simpler alias.)
the alias works after  few trials and errors I had to write the string with its arguements in a text file make it executable.
The alias looks like this
alias makegapless='~/.gaplessscript'
and the command string used in ".gaplessscript" is
sox --combine concatenate (ls|grep .wav) gapless.wav
this just tells sox to combine a series of .wav's into one continuous track and output it into the same working directory with the genaric name "gapless.wav" which is a lot faster than using audacity or something similar to get the same results.
My goal is to pass this command to thunar with a custom action and tell it to point inside a selected directory with .wav's so all i have to do is right click the folder and run the command without opening a terminal into the directory
Any suggestions on how to write this in thunar's custom actions. I tried several using the the parameters suggested in thunars custom actions window but none seem to work. what would be the syntax or lines tp include in the string so that this can be done? I have a few custom actions already configured but can't seem to figure this one out...
Last edited by Thme (2012-05-27 20:10:47)

Answer 1

Ok so apparently This is an issue with sox only taking certain syntax. and the paths sent to it by thunar aren't recognized when deling with folders? I was able to get results with both my posted command and the one suggested by trilby when testing it in the cli. but when trying to intoduce those paths to be specified with thunar when running sox as an action strangely this sting works in the custom actions with out a script but has a disadvantage.
sox --combine concatenate %F gapless.wav
Doing it this way I have to highlight the audio files specifically(will take other supported formats like ogg, mp3 and flac etc. and convert them as well). If any unsupported type is highlighted it won't run. I tried the different options %d %D etc just to see if anything worked but as i already thought it didn't. arranging the ls|grep or find strings into this got nothing. I went through about as many possible strings i could think of  even ones i was sure wouldn't work. I'm marking this as solved as i did get at least a working menu action just not exactly what i wanted. but any further insight would be appreciated. maybe i'm just missing something really simple.