Thought this would be useful for bash alias lovers with lots of
shortcuts in their ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_aliases (path defined in the
$aliases variable below).
Cheers!
--Samee
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
cachedir=${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 stest -dqr -n "$cache" $PATH; then
- stest -flx $PATH | sort -u | tee "$cache" | dmenu "$@"
+ aliases=~/.bashrc
+ if stest -dqr -n "$cache" $PATH || stest -fqr -n "$cache" "$aliases"; then
+ (
+ stest -flx $PATH
+ source $aliases
+ alias | sed 's/alias \([[:alnum:]]\+\)=.*/\1/'
+ ) | sort -u | tee "$cache" | dmenu "$@"
else
dmenu "$@" < "$cache"
fi
-) | ${SHELL:-"/bin/sh"} &
+)`
+# Perform alias expansion on $cmd
+echo -e "source ~/.bashrc \n $cmd" | bash -O expand_aliases &
