[pass] [passmenu]: Complicated way for first line?

[Lucas Hoffmann]

Quoting Jason A. Donenfeld (2016-02-05 22:21:49)
> Merging this just for you. :-P
> ...
>     So, instead use two processes! One for getting the first line and one
>     for removing the trailing line. Everybody loves more calls to fork(),
>     right?

Or use builtins:
pass show "$password" | read foo; prinf %s "$foo" | xdotool ...

(On my machine f runs about 40 times faster than g:
f () { local foo; read foo < "$1"; printf %s "$foo"; }
g () { head -n 1 "$1" | tr -d '\n\r'; }
)
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