#!/bin/sh : <<=cut =pod =head1 NAME mark - a tool for marking and acting on file paths =head1 SYNOPSIS mark add # Add a file path to the mark list mark remove # Remove a file path from the mark list mark clear # Remove all marks from list mark ls # List current marks mark ls-print0 # List current marks, separated by NUL chars mark cp # Copy marked files to current directory mark mv # Move files to current directory and unmark mark each # Execute command with each marked file as parameter mark -h # Print help message =head1 DESCRIPTION mark stores a list of marked file paths in an SQLite database called marks.db in the user's home directory. Once marked, files can be copied, moved, listed, or passed as parameters to arbitrary shell commands. Commands are intended to be invoked as subcommands of mark(1), in the style of git(1). =head1 COMMANDS =head2 mark-add Add one or more paths to the mark list. Relative paths will be stored by their absolute location. Repeated commands are idempotent - a path can only appear once in the mark list. =head2 mark-remove Remove one or more paths from the mark list. Relative paths will be resolved to their absolute location before the list is searched. =head2 mark-clear Clear the entire mark list. =head2 mark-ls List all currently marked paths, one line per path. =head2 mark-ls-print0 List all currently marked paths, separated by null characters, for use when piping to C or other commands which expect null-terminated file lists. Analogous to C. This is useful where filenames contain whitespace, quotes, etc. =head2 mark-cp Copy all marked paths to the current working directory. =head2 mark-mv Move all marked paths to the current working directory, and remove them from the mark list. =head2 mark-each Execute the provided command once per marked path, with the path as a parameter, and print any output from the command. This is crudely analogous to C. While good enough for simple commands, it's likely to break in more complex cases, and may be slow for large mark lists. Consider using mark-ls-print0(1) and xargs(1) instead. =head1 SEE ALSO App::MarkFiles =head1 LICENSE mark is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. =head1 AUTHOR Brennen Bearnes =cut print_help() { echo "$0 - mark and operate on files" echo echo "Usage: mark [command] [args]" echo " mark add [path] - Add a file path to the mark list" echo " mark clear - Clear mark list" echo " mark cp - Copy marked files to current directory" echo " mark each [command] - Execute command for each marked file" echo " mark ls - List current marks" echo " mark ls-nullsep - List current marks, separated by NUL chars" echo " mark mv - Move files to current directory and unmark" echo " mark -h - Print this help message" echo echo "You must specify a command." exit 1 } if [ $# -lt 1 ] || [ "$1" = "--help" ] || [ "$1" = "-h" ]; then print_help fi subprog="mark-$1" # Make sure that the command we've been given exists: command -v "$subprog" >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "mark: '$1' is not a mark command. See 'mark -h'." exit 1 } shift exec "$subprog" "$@"