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Created May 28, 2020 02:47
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A shell script for Tot
#!/bin/sh
basename=`basename $0`
if [ -z "$*" ]; then
echo "usage: ${basename} <dot> [ -o | -r | <file> | - ]"
echo ""
echo "options:"
echo " -o open dot in window with keyboard focus"
echo " -r read contents of dot"
echo " -c clear contents of dot"
echo " <file> append contents of regular file to dot"
echo " - append standard input to dot"
echo ""
echo "examples:"
echo " $ cal -h | tot 1 - # put a calendar in first dot"
echo " $ tot 2 MyApp.crash # put a crash report in second dot"
echo ""
exit 1
fi
dot="$1"
if [ -z "$2" ]; then
echo "error: no dot action specified"
exit 1
else
if [ "$2" = "-o" ]; then
# open dot
osascript -e "tell application \"Tot\" to open location \"tot://${dot}\""
osascript -e "tell application \"Tot\" to activate"
elif [ "$2" = "-r" ]; then
# get contents of dot
osascript -e "tell application \"Tot\" to open location \"tot://${dot}/content\""
elif [ "$2" = "-c" ]; then
# clear contents of dot
osascript -e "tell application \"Tot\" to open location \"tot://${dot}/replace?text=\""
else
# append file or stdin to dot
if [ "$2" = "-" ]; then
FILE=`mktemp -t ${basename}` || exit 1
cat /dev/stdin > $FILE
else
if [ -f "$2" ]; then
FILE="$2"
else
echo "error: not a regular file"
exit 1
fi
fi
text=`cat $FILE | python -c 'import urllib; import sys; print urllib.quote(sys.stdin.read())'`
osascript -e "tell application \"Tot\" to open location \"tot://${dot}/append?text=${text}\""
fi
fi
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