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| author |  Arun Prakash Jana <engineerarun@gmail.com> | 2019-01-05 10:57:11 +0530 |
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| committer | Arun Prakash Jana <engineerarun@gmail.com> | 2019-01-05 10:57:11 +0530 |
| commit | b5e62d7ceb3c18b7c62df472e77f4c0262f196a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 2d0f131b8e7e94cb630f19df334c35704bc93e78 | |
| parent | e87ff1129c956da53116c4ca18ceef37b65baa92 (diff) | |
| download | nnn-b5e62d7ceb3c18b7c62df472e77f4c0262f196a7.tar.gz | |
Document picker behaviour
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 10 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/user-scripts/copier.sh | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/user-scripts/picker.sh | 9 |
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -465,6 +465,16 @@ As you might notice, `nnn` uses the environment variable `NNN_TMPFILE` to write To use `nnn` as a file picker and redirect the output to other programs, use [picker.sh](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/blob/master/scripts/user-scripts/picker.sh). +Ways to pick files: + +- use selection and press <kbd>q</kbd> to quit +- press <kbd>Enter</kbd> to pick any earlier selection and the current entry (to avoid selecting the last file in the selection twice, press <kbd>q</kbd> instead). + +Notes: + +- pressing <kbd>Enter</kbd> on a directory enters it; when trying to pick a directory, e.g. to pipe to `cd`, use single file selection and press <kbd>q</kbd> +- to discard selection and quit, press <kbd>^G</kbd> + #### run custom scripts `nnn` can invoke custom scripts with the currently selected file name as argument 1. diff --git a/scripts/user-scripts/copier.sh b/scripts/user-scripts/copier.sh index 391770c..a99b88b 100755 --- a/scripts/user-scripts/copier.sh +++ b/scripts/user-scripts/copier.sh @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ #!/usr/bin/env sh +# Description: Copy selection to clipboard +# +# Shell: generic +# Author: Arun Prakash Jana + # Linux cat ~/.nnncp | xargs -0 | xsel -bi diff --git a/scripts/user-scripts/picker.sh b/scripts/user-scripts/picker.sh index 8885ed6..e69159e 100644 --- a/scripts/user-scripts/picker.sh +++ b/scripts/user-scripts/picker.sh @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # Description: Pick files and pipe the line-separated list to another utility # -# Shell: sh +# Shell: generic # Author: Arun Prakash Jana # # Usage: @@ -17,5 +17,8 @@ # NOTE: This use case is limited to picking files, other functionality may not work as expected. nnn -p /tmp/picked -cat /tmp/picked | tr '\0' '\n' -rm /tmp/picked + +if [ -f /tmp/picked ]; then + cat /tmp/picked | tr '\0' '\n' + rm /tmp/picked +fi |