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      1 #!/bin/sh
      2 
      3 # A primitive clipboard manager. Saves the current selection and clipboard
      4 # to a temporary file and shows all saved selections in dmenu for the user
      5 # to select one. Duplicate selections are avoided.
      6 
      7 # Bugs (wontfix): the program fails if it can't create the temporary
      8 # directory with the designated name.
      9 
     10 # Usage: clip [-m menu]
     11 
     12 # Requires: xsel, dmenu (or similar)
     13 
     14 menu="dmenu -i -l 25"
     15 
     16 usage() {
     17 	echo "Usage: clip [-m MENU]"
     18 }
     19 
     20 while getopts "m:" opt; do
     21 	case "$opt" in
     22 		m)
     23 			menu="$OPTARG"
     24 			;;
     25 		*)
     26 			usage
     27 			exit 1
     28 			;;
     29 	esac
     30 done
     31 shift "$((OPTIND - 1))"
     32 
     33 dir="/tmp/clipdir"
     34 mkdir -p "$dir"
     35 
     36 file1="$(mktemp -p "$dir" "$(date +%s)".XXXXX)"
     37 file2="$(mktemp -p "$dir" "$(date +%s)"b.XXXX)"
     38 echo "created $file1"
     39 echo "created $file2"
     40 xsel    > "$file1"
     41 xsel -b > "$file2"
     42 
     43 # Avoid duplicates
     44 for f in "$dir"/*; do
     45 	[ "$f" != "$file1" ] && if diff "$f" "$file1"; then rm "$file1"; fi
     46 	[ "$f" != "$file2" ] && if diff "$f" "$file2"; then rm "$file2"; fi
     47 done
     48 
     49 list="$(mktemp)"
     50 ls "$dir" > "$list";
     51 
     52 lines="$(mktemp)"
     53 for f in "$dir"/*; do
     54 	nlines="$(wc -l "$f" | awk '{print $1}')"
     55 	fclean="$(echo "$f" | sed "s|$dir\/||")"
     56 	printf '%s (%s) |    %s\n' \
     57 		"$fclean" "$((1+nlines))" "$(head -n 1 "$f")" >> "$lines"
     58 done
     59 
     60 selected=$(sort -r "$lines" | $menu | awk '{print $1}')
     61 if [ -n "$selected" ]; then
     62 	xsel -ib < "$dir/$selected"
     63 fi