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authorLuke Smith <luke@lukesmith.xyz>2019-02-21 10:14:17 -0500
committerLuke Smith <luke@lukesmith.xyz>2019-02-21 10:14:17 -0500
commit03279ea318805b3fa7545f01385485e8053daea5 (patch)
treeb015842b634f78d2f0f3a275ef561a75c153dab8 /bin/openfile
parentf2dcd92c30d4d595a3daa4f8e977ffb967839b69 (diff)
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+#!/bin/sh
+# Helps open a file with xdg-open from mutt in a external program without weird side effects.
+
+base=$(basename "$1")
+ext="${base##*.}"
+file=$(mktemp -u --suffix=".$ext")
+rm -f "$file"
+cp "$1" "$file"
+setsid xdg-open "$file" >/dev/null 2>&1 &