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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# A primitive clipboard manager. Saves the current selection and clipboard
+# to a temporary file and shows all saved selections in dmenu for the user
+# to select one. Duplicate selections are avoided.
+
+# Bugs (wontfix): the program fails if it can't create the temporary
+# directory with the designated name.
+
+# Usage: clip [-m menu]
+
+# Requires: xsel, dmenu (or similar)
+
+menu="dmenu -i -l 25"
+
+usage() {
+        echo "Usage: clip [-m MENU]"
+}
+
+while getopts "m:" opt; do
+        case "$opt" in
+                m)
+                        menu="$OPTARG"
+                        ;;
+                *)
+                        usage
+                        exit 1
+                        ;;
+        esac
+done
+shift "$((OPTIND - 1))"
+
+dir="/tmp/clipdir"
+mkdir -p "$dir"
+
+file1="$(mktemp -p "$dir" "$(date +%s)".XXXXXX)"
+file2="$(mktemp -p "$dir" "$(date +%s)"b.XXXXX)"
+echo "created $file1"
+echo "created $file2"
+xsel    > "$file1"
+xsel -b > "$file2"
+
+# Avoid duplicates
+for f in "$dir"/*; do
+        [ "$f" != "$file1" ] && if diff "$f" "$file1"; then rm "$file1"; fi
+        [ "$f" != "$file2" ] && if diff "$f" "$file2"; then rm "$file2"; fi
+done
+
+list="$(mktemp)"
+ls "$dir" > "$list";
+
+lines="$(mktemp)"
+for f in "$dir"/*; do
+        nlines="$(wc -l "$f" | awk '{print $1}')"
+        fclean="$(echo "$f" | sed "s|$dir\/||")"
+        printf '%s (%s) |    %s\n' \
+                "$fclean" "$((1+nlines))" "$(head -n 1 "$f")" >> "$lines"
+done
+
+selected=$(sort -r "$lines" | $menu | awk '{print $1}')
+if [ -n "$selected" ]; then
+        xsel -ib < "$dir/$selected"
+fi