clipmenu-spmenu/clipmenud
2015-10-07 19:06:47 +01:00

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#!/bin/bash
cache_dir=/tmp/clipmenu.$USER/
mkdir -p -m0700 "$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
md5=$(md5sum <<< "$data")
md5=${md5%% *}
filename="$cache_dir/$(LC_ALL=C date +%F-%H-%M-%S)-$md5"
last_data[$selection]=$data
last_filename[$selection]=$filename
printf '%s' "$data" > "$filename"
done
done