#!/bin/bash dmenu_lines=8 declare -A selections for file in /tmp/clipmenu/*; do first_line=$(sed -n '1{p;q}' "$file") lines=$(wc -l "$file") lines=${lines%% *} if (( lines > 1 )); then first_line+=" ($lines lines)" fi selections[$first_line]=$file done printf '%s\n' "${!selections[@]}" | dmenu -l "$dmenu_lines"