[pass] xdotool dmenu

[Christoph Egger]

Hi!

Brian Mattern <brian.mattern at gmail.com> writes:
> Is the echo necessary?

Well, dmenu reads from stdin so you need to echo into it (or do some
`ls | sed` which forks) [0]. For xdotool you could get around by doing a
`xdotool type "$(pass $passentry)"` but then everyone able to run `ps`
or anything similar on your system can read xdotool's comandline
parameters so the `echo -n "type " ; pass` is the "safe" solution.

  Christoph

[0] http://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/tree/contrib/dmenu/passmenu
    uses `printf` but does that part basically the same way
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