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ElectronicRU / dmenu_history.sh
Last active December 14, 2015 19:48
dmenu script for providing unlimited history sorted by number of uses/most recent use.
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -lt 1 ] ; then
echo 1>&2 "usage: dmenu_history hist_file dmenu_opts..."
exit 1
fi
f="$1"
tf=`mktemp`
if ! [ -e "$f" ]; then touch "$f"; fi
shift
( sort -r -k 1,1 -n -s "$f" | cut -d' ' -f2- ; cat - ) | dmenu "$@" |