Bolt: A launcher wrapper for having a lightning fast Unix workflow

Bolt prompts you for keywords to your local files, directories or Google search and launches them respectively.

Features

• Personalized search list

• Filtering of irrelevant files

• Customized application launching that can be defined easily (unlike xdg-open)

• Googling capability

• (Optional) Real-time update of the search list

• Runs as fast as it gets! (hint: ~100 lines of POSIX shellscripting & early updating)

Dependencies

• grep, sed, find, awk, file, xargs

• rofi / dmenu

• (Optional) inotify-tools

• (Optional) tmux, fzf, xdo

Installation

git clone https://github.com/salman-abedin/bolt.git && cd bolt && sudo make install

Prerequisite

Modify the launch function according to your preference and reinstall.

Usage

• Create a paths and a filters file in ~/.config/bolt. Here is a couple of examples

• run bolt --generate (preferably at startup) to generate the search list

  • (Optional) run bolt --watch (preferably at startup) to enable real-time search list update

• Bind a key combination with the command bolt --rofi-search to launch the prompt

  • (Optional) run bolt --tmux-launch or bolt --fzf-search to use bolt inside the terminal

• Type the keyword, press enter and baam!

Update

cd bolt
git pull rebase && sudo make install

Uninstallation

sudo make uninstall

Patches

• 21/06/20:- Added support for launching files with spaces in the name

• 24/06/20:- Added two column prompt for more accurate searching

• 30/06/20:- Added googling support

• 05/07/20:- Added tmux and fzf support

FAQ

Why not use xdg-open?

I hate xdg-open. Because...

1. it will only work on linux

2. You have to modify two files in two different locations writing no less than 5 lines with root level shell scripting. I would much rather have you use a one liner like in my script and keep it much more flexible.

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Contact

SalmanAbedin@disroot.org