[solved] run dmenu with custom aliases and functions

Question

Is it possible to run my custom bash aliases and functions with dmenu?
My aliases are placed in ~/.bash_aliases and my functions are in ~/.bash_functions.
I source them in my ~/.bashrc through:
Functions
if [ -f ~/.bash_functions ]; then
. ~/.bash_functions
fi
# Aliases
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi
Last edited by orschiro (2013-12-27 08:41:40)

Answer 1

No problem!... sorry, I was about to post an "improved" version, but it breaks support for functions, doh!
EDIT: finally got it to work as I wanted Sorry, zsh stuff is gone from mine, I don't use it -- feel free to borrow the improvements for your version though!
v1.4 Changes:
- removed unnecessary if statements
- removed unnecessary 'source' command
- added some logic to see if the command is a real program, or an alias/function - this saves spawning bash shells that aren't needed
v1.5 TODO list:
- add some "history" feature so that commonly used commands appear first in the list
#!/bin/bash
cachedir=${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-"$HOME/.cache"}
if [ -d "$cachedir" ]; then
cache=$cachedir/dmenu_run
else
cache=$HOME/.dmenu_cache # if no xdg dir, fall back to dotfile in ~
fi
cmd=`(
IFS=:
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
aliases=( ~/.bash_aliases )
fi
if [ ~/.bash_functions ]; then
functions=( ~/.bash_functions )
fi
if stest -dqr -n "$cache" $PATH || stest -fqr -n "$cache" "$aliases" || stest -fqr -n "$cache" "$functions"; then
stest -flx $PATH
source $aliases
alias | awk -F '[ =]' '{print $2}'
compgen -A function
) | sort -u | tee "$cache" | dmenu "$@"
else
dmenu "$@" < "$cache"
fi
)`
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
if [ ! -z $(which $cmd) ]; then
exec $cmd &
else
echo -e "source ~/.bash_aliases \n $cmd" | bash -O expand_aliases &
fi
fi
Last edited by dennis123123 (2014-04-21 10:09:39)