menulist

Small filepath list generator primarily for use with dmenu, written in Rust.

Usage

Requirements

• rust, cargo
• dmenu, or similar tool like rofi

Build

$ git clone https://github.com/clukawski/menulist
$ cd menulist
$ cargo build --release

Test

Optionally RUST_BACKTRACE= can be used to see a backtrace of failed tests.

$ cargo test

The binary can be found in ./target/release/menulist.

Usage

Help

Usage: menulist FOLDER [options]

Files/directories sorted by modification time.

Options:
    -e EXTENSION        specify file extension to filter
    -d, --dirs          include dirs
    -h, --help          print this help menu

Sample usage

Getting a list of .mp4 files to open with mpv

$ mpv `(./target/release/menulist -e mp4 /mnt/storage/music/ | dmenu -i -l 25 -fn "xos4 Terminus-16")`

Getting a list of .mp4 files and directories to open with mpv (mpv supports using folders as playlists)

$ mpv `(./target/release/menulist -d -e mp4 /mnt/storage/music/ | dmenu -i -l 25 -fn "xos4 Terminus-16")`