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Minimal, Streamlined, Powerful (Improvement for an older PR) #1419

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Minimal, Streamlined, Powerful (Improvement for an older PR)
emrakyz Jun 2, 2024
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#!/bin/dash
p() { printf "%s\n" "${@}"; }
d() { dmenu -l "15" -p "${1}"; }
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d() { dmenu -l "15" -p "${1}"; }
d() { dmenu -l "15" -i -p "${1}"; }

Useful if some filenames are capitalized (makes searches case-insensitive).

f() {
r="$(locate -b -e --regex -d "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/.p.db" "(${1})$")"
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r="$(locate -b -e --regex -d "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/.p.db" "(${1})$")"
r="$(locate -b -e --regex "(${1})$")"

This can also work. It uses the default plocate database instead of this custom one. By default, Arch Linux auto-updates the database once a day (if plocate is installed). Otherwise, running sudo updatedb will manually refresh it when needed.

By default, plocate scans everything, which can add a lot of junk to the output. For example, the "Image" category shows the thumbnails generated in ~/.cache/lf and ~/.cache/ueberzug. This can be fixed by creating an /etc/updatedb.conf file with something like this 1:

PRUNENAMES=".git .bzr .hg .svn .cache .local .cargo .librewolf"
PRUNEPATHS="/boot /dev /etc /opt /proc /run /srv /sys /tmp /usr /var"

This restricts scanning to only /home, /root and a few other places, leading to a cleaner file list and faster database updates.

Overall, nice work! Thanks for sharing!

1: updatedb.conf man page

o="$(p "${r}" | sed 's|.*/||; s/\.[^.]*$//' | d "${c}")"
[ "${o}" ] && ${2} "$(p "${r}" | grep -Fm "1" "/${o}.")"
}
c="$(p "Doc" "Image" "Music" "Office" "Video" | d "Categories")"
case "${c}" in
"Doc") f "cb.|djvu|epup|mobi|p(df|s)" "zathura --mode fullscreen" ;;
"Image") f "j(pe?g|xl)|png|webp" "nsxiv -bfq" ;;
"Music") f "flac|m(p3|4a)|o(gg|pus)|wav" "mpv" ;;
"Office") f "(doc|ppt|xls)x?|od(p|s)" "libreoffice" ;;
"Video") f "avi|flv|gif|m(2ts|p4)|m(4|o|k)v|w(ebm|mv)" "mpv" ;;
*) exit ;;
esac