New passmenu option to type username and copy password

[John Gliksberg]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:38:55 +0200
Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetil.homme at redpill-linpro.com> wrote:
> replacing bashisms with an (undocumented) reliance on GNU find
> (-printf) isn't a good idea IMHO.

Well spotted, thanks.


Here's an updated patch, tested in busybox.

The interesting bit:

    -password=$(printf '%s\n' "${password_files[@]}" | dmenu)
    +password="$(find "$prefix" -type f -name '*.gpg' -print \
    +            | sed "s#^$prefix/##;s/\.gpg$//" | dmenu)"

Don't know if it's any more worthwhile than before, but at least
it's not GNU dependent.


Addendum:

I suppose this might not deal properly with newlines, when it is
technically possible to insert entries containing newlines
(something like `pass insert $'foo\nbar'`).

However dmenu takes in a newline-separated list of values, so AFAIK
there's no good way to write and read newlines (or a substitute)
to and from dmenu.

This is also the current behaviour in master, for passmenu and shell
completion (bash: $'foo\nbar' -> 'f' can complete as 'foo' or 'bar',
zsh: $'foo\nbar' -> 'f' can complete as 'foo' and 'b' as 'bar').


Best,

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John Gliksberg
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