From 26c0df4511461c2062784531458b6b84ea73e6b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Smith <luke@lukesmith.xyz>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 15:08:23 -0500
Subject: more general openfile script

---
 etc/openfile.sh | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 etc/openfile.sh

(limited to 'etc/openfile.sh')

diff --git a/etc/openfile.sh b/etc/openfile.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..c866932
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/openfile.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/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 &
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