#!/bin/bash cache_dir=/tmp/clipmenu.$USER/ mkdir -p -m0700 "$cache_dir" declare -A last_data 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 clipboard, in case the original application is # unable to serve the clipboard request # Exclude primary from this behavior in order not to mess with the owner [[ $selection != "primary" ]] && xsel --"$selection" | xsel -i --"$selection" else data=$(xclip -o -sel "$selection"; printf x) # See above [[ $selection != "primary" ]] && xclip -o -sel "$selection" | \ xclip -i -sel "$selection" fi # We add and remove the x so that trailing newlines are not stripped. # Otherwise, they would be stripped by the very nature of how POSIX # defines command substitution. data=${data%x} [[ $data == *[^[:blank:]]* ]] || continue [[ ${last_data[$selection]} == "$data" ]] && continue last_data[$selection]=$data md5=$(md5sum <<< "$data") md5=${md5%% *} printf '%s' "$data" > "$cache_dir/$(LC_ALL=C date +%F-%H-%M-%S)-$md5" done done