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author | Patrick Spek <p.spek@tyil.nl> | 2020-03-19 11:32:07 +0100 |
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committer | Patrick Spek <p.spek@tyil.nl> | 2021-08-14 11:59:34 +0200 |
commit | c2e51bc0d1b14fcd5d8b29cf3c87d8f18666231f (patch) | |
tree | bc556a8b12561d223af1a3135e384c1c819bc6f3 /.local | |
parent | d67fee9a0bb6f907533d5d3c7e573c34cdb21bef (diff) |
Add possible terminal with no history reference
Diffstat (limited to '.local')
-rwxr-xr-x | .local/bin/term | 82 |
1 files changed, 82 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/.local/bin/term b/.local/bin/term new file mode 100755 index 0000000..aabea8e --- /dev/null +++ b/.local/bin/term @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under +# the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free +# Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any +# later version. +# +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT +# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS +# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more +# details. + +# A list of possible terminal emulators, sorted by preference +TERMINALS=" + termite + st + urxvt + rxvt + xterm +" + +main() +{ + # Handle opts + while getopts ":hc" opt + do + case "$opt" in + c) OPT_NO_HIST=1 ;; + h) usage && exit 0 ;; + *) + printf "Invalid option passed: %s\n" "$OPTARG" >&2 + ;; + esac + done + + shift $(( OPTIND - 1 )) + + # Unset history related environment variables if requested + if [ "$OPT_NO_HIST" ] + then + unset HISTFILE + unset HISTSIZE + unset SAVEHIST + + export TERM_NO_HISTORY=1 + fi + + # Check the list of possible terminal emulators, and exec the first one + # that's available + for terminal in $TERMINALS + do + command -v "$terminal" > /dev/null || continue + + exec "$terminal" "$@" + done + + # No usable terminal found, print error + printf "No suitable terminal emulator found. The following were tried:\n" + + for terminal in $TERMINALS + do + printf "\t%s\n" "$terminal" + done + + exit 127 +} + +usage() +{ + cat <<EOF +Usage: + ${0##*/} -h + +Nondescript + +Options: + -h Show this help text and exit. + -c Unset HISTFILE before starting the terminal. +EOF +} + +main "$@" |