st/st-copyout
GregW 93dcba59de
Get rid of NUL character in PS1
The first grep in the original script will return "binary file matches" if there are NUL characters in PS1, e.g, emojis.
The added line gets rid of NUL characters.
2020-04-10 11:59:55 -04:00

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#!/bin/sh
# Using external pipe with st, give a dmenu prompt of recent commands,
# allowing the user to copy the output of one.
# xclip required for this script.
# By Jaywalker and Luke
tmpfile=$(mktemp /tmp/st-cmd-output.XXXXXX)
trap 'rm "$tmpfile"' 0 1 15
sed -n "w $tmpfile"
sed -i 's/\x0//g' "$tmpfile"
ps1="$(grep "\S" "$tmpfile" | tail -n 1 | sed 's/^\s*//' | cut -d' ' -f1)"
chosen="$(grep -F "$ps1" "$tmpfile" | sed '$ d' | tac | dmenu -p "Copy which command's output?" -i -l 10 | sed 's/[^^]/[&]/g; s/\^/\\^/g')"
eps1="$(echo "$ps1" | sed 's/[^^]/[&]/g; s/\^/\\^/g')"
awk "/^$chosen$/{p=1;print;next} p&&/$eps1/{p=0};p" "$tmpfile" | xclip -selection clipboard