#!/bin/sh

# A primitive clipboard manager. Saves the current selection to a temporary
# file and shows all saved selections in dmenu for the user to select one.
# It does not check for duplicates and it fails if there it can't
# create the temporary directory with the designated name.

# Requires: xsel, dmenu

# TODO: improve formatting in dmenu

menu="dmenu"
menuopts="-l 25"

dir="/tmp/clipdir"
mkdir -p "$dir"

file="$(mktemp -p $dir $(date +%s).XXXXX)"
xsel > "$file"

list="$(mktemp)"
ls $dir > $list;

lines="$(mktemp)"
for f in $dir/*; do
	nlines=$(expr 1 + "$(wc -l $f | awk '{print $1}')")
	fclean=$(echo $f | sed "s|$dir\/||")
	printf "$fclean ($nlines) |    $(head -n 1 $f)\n" >> "$lines"
done

selected=$(sort -r $lines | $menu $menuopts | awk '{print $1}')
if [ -n "$selected" ]; then
	xsel -ib < "$dir/$selected"
fi