scripts

commit 642ba34e6edb64f4da7e58c033571087b5aa156f
parent 90116d9feb725dfdee1847fbb758c1c97aa6a336
Author: Wim Dupont <wim@wimdupont.com>
Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:30:35 +0100

added pclip

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README.adoc
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bin/pclip
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diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
@@ -96,3 +96,13 @@ The downloaded audio files also get tagged by id3 to make them easy to sort by o
 * https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp[yt-dlp]
 * https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git[ffmpeg]
 * https://github.com/squell/id3[id3]
+
+== link:bin/pclip[pclip]
+
+Used to show all clipboard contents in dmenu and allows you to select one which will be typed out.
+
+.Requires:
+
+* https://git.suckless.org/dmenu/[dmenu]
+* https://github.com/astrand/xclip[xclip]
+* https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool[xdotool]
diff --git a/bin/pclip b/bin/pclip
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+source ~/.config/scripts/properties
+
+shopt -s nullglob globstar
+
+font=$DMENU_FONT
+
+shift $((OPTIND-1))
+
+if [[ -n $WAYLAND_DISPLAY ]]; then
+	dmenu=dmenu-wl
+	xdotool="ydotool type --file -"
+elif [[ -n $DISPLAY ]]; then
+	dmenu=dmenu
+	xdotool="xdotool type --clearmodifiers --file -"
+else
+	echo "Error: No Wayland or X11 display detected" >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+primary=$(xclip -selection primary -o)
+secondary=$(xclip -selection secondary -o)
+clipboard=$(xclip -selection clipboard -o)
+
+clipboards=()
+clipboards[0]=$(echo -n "Primary: ${primary}" | tr -d '\n')
+clipboards[1]=$(echo -n "Secondary: ${secondary}" | tr -d '\n')
+clipboards[2]=$(echo -n "Clipboard: ${clipboard}" | tr -d '\n')
+
+selected=$(printf '%s\n' "${clipboards[@]}" | "$dmenu" -fn "$font" -i -l 10 "$@" )
+
+[[ -n "${selected}" ]] || exit
+
+case "${selected}" in
+	Primary*)
+		echo "${primary}" | $xdotool
+		;;
+	Secondary*)
+		echo "${secondary}" | $xdotool
+		;;
+	Clipboard*)
+		echo "${clipboard}" | $xdotool
+		;;
+	*)
+		echo "Unknown selection" | $xdotool
+		;;
+esac
+