#!/bin/bash cache_dir=/tmp/clipmenu.$USER/ # It's ok that this only applies to the final directory. # shellcheck disable=SC2174 mkdir -p -m0700 "$cache_dir" declare -A last_data declare -A last_filename while sleep "${CLIPMENUD_SLEEP:-0.5}"; do for selection in clipboard primary; do if type -p xsel >/dev/null 2>&1; then data=$(xsel --"$selection"; printf x) # Take ownership of the clipboard, in case the original application # is unable to serve the clipboard request (due to being suspended, # etc). # # Primary is excluded from the change of ownership as applications # sometimes act up if clipboard focus is taken away from them -- # for example, urxvt will unhilight text, which is undesirable. if [[ $selection != primary ]]; then xsel --"$selection" | xsel -i --"$selection" fi else data=$(xclip -o -sel "$selection"; printf x) # See above comments about taking ownership of the clipboard for # context. if [[ $selection != primary ]]; then xclip -o -sel "$selection" | xclip -i -sel "$selection" fi fi # We add and remove the x so that trailing newlines are not stripped. # Otherwise, they would be stripped by the very nature of how POSIX # defines command substitution. data=${data%x} [[ $data == *[^[:blank:]]* ]] || continue [[ ${last_data[$selection]} == "$data" ]] && continue # If we were in the middle of doing a selection when the previous poll # ran, then we may have got a partial clip. possible_partial=${last_data[$selection]} if [[ $possible_partial && $data == "$possible_partial"* ]]; then rm -- "${last_filename[$selection]}" fi filename="$cache_dir/$(LC_ALL=C date +%F-%T.%N)" last_data[$selection]=$data last_filename[$selection]=$filename printf '%s' "$data" > "$filename" done done