dotfiles/.local/bin/bibshow

#!/usr/bin/env sh

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# @author      : swytch
# @file        : bibshow
# @license     : GPLv3
# @created     : Wednesday May 20, 2020 17:58:14 CEST
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# @description : interactively display the infos of a .bib entry in dmenu
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file="$(find $HOME/documents/bibliographies/ -type f -not -path '*/\.*' | dmenu -l 20 -p "[bibshow] which bibliography?")" # the -not -path allows find to ignore hidden files

refs_list="$(sed -e 's/\t//g' "$file" | tr '\n' ' ' | sed -e 's/}\s\s/}\n/g')"
[ -z $refs_list ] && exit 1;

ref="$(printf "$refs_list" | dmenu -i -p 'reference?' -l 10)"
[ -z $ref ] && exit 1;

output="$(printf "$ref" | sed -e 's/author/\n author/g' -e 's/",/",\n/g')"

printf "$output" | dmenu -i -p "infos" -l 10
printf "$ref" | awk -F '{' '{print $2}' | awk -F ',' '{print $1}' | xclip -selection clipboard