Hi, I made this shell script so that I could pick up files as I wander about on the command line and then drop them in the same location. I thought you might like it, too. In order to install and use: chmod 755 pick && sudo cp pick /usr/bin/ chmod 755 drop && sudo cp drop /usr/bin/ then you can cruise around and do: pick filename1 filename2 cd otherdir pick otherfile ... etc ... cd /home mkdir central && cd central drop It's not robust at all - it stores your picks in ~/.pick until you call drop at which time it uses the file paths in ~/.pick to create a new executable ~/.drop file to copy each of the files you picked to the current working directory. Thanks to André Paramés Pereira for the patch to run multiple files at once. git user erickworking added this gist: https://gist.github.com/833140 "It allows multiple file selection and running arbitrary commands. The string {} is replaced by the file name in run (e.g. "run cp -v {} ." copies all the files to the current directory)." Thanks to andresp on reddit for strengthening the script so it won't break with special chars or spaces, and also making it more efficient!