scope.sh

#!/bin/bash
# ranger supports enhanced previews.  If the option "use_preview_script"
# is set to True (by default it's False), this script will be called
# and its output is displayed in ranger.  ANSI color codes are supported.

# NOTES: This script is considered a configuration file.  If you upgrade
# ranger, it will be left untouched. (You must update it yourself.)
# Also, ranger disables STDIN here, so interactive scripts won't work properly

# Meanings of exit codes:
# code | meaning    | action of ranger
# -----+------------+-------------------------------------------
# 0    | success    | success. display stdout as preview
# 1    | no preview | failure. display no preview at all
# 2    | plain text | display the plain content of the file
# 3    | fix width  | success. Don't reload when width changes
# 4    | fix height | success. Don't reload when height changes
# 5    | fix both   | success. Don't ever reload

# Meaningful aliases for arguments:
path="$1"    # Full path of the selected file
width="$2"   # Width of the preview pane (number of fitting characters)
height="$3"  # Height of the preview pane (number of fitting characters)

maxln=200    # Stop after $maxln lines.  Can be used like ls | head -n $maxln

# Find out something about the file:
mimetype=$(file --mime-type -Lbk "$path")
extension=$(echo "$path" | grep '\.' | grep -o '[^.]\+$')

# Functions:
# "have $1" succeeds if $1 is an existing command/installed program
function have { type -P "$1" > /dev/null; }
# "success" returns the exit code of the first program in the last pipe chain
function success { test ${PIPESTATUS[0]} = 0 -o ${PIPESTATUS[0]} = 141; }

case "$extension" in
    # Archive extensions:
    7z|a|ace|alz|arc|arj|bz|bz2|cab|cpio|deb|gz|jar|lha|lz|lzh|lzma|lzo|\
    rar|rpm|rz|t7z|tar|tbz|tbz2|tgz|tlz|txz|tZ|tzo|war|xpi|xz|Z|zip)
        als "$path" | head -n $maxln
        success && exit 0 || acat "$path" | head -n $maxln && exit 3
        exit 1;;
    # PDF documents:
    pdf)
        pdftotext -l 10 -nopgbrk -q "$path" - | head -n $maxln | fmt -s -w $width
        success && exit 0 || exit 1;;
    # BitTorrent Files
    torrent)
        torri "$path" | head -n $maxln && exit 0
        exit 1;;
    # HTML Pages:
    htm|html|xhtml)
        have w3m    && w3m    -dump "$path" | head -n $maxln | fmt -s -w $width && exit 4
        have lynx   && lynx   -dump "$path" | head -n $maxln | fmt -s -w $width && exit 4
        have elinks && elinks -dump "$path" | head -n $maxln | fmt -s -w $width && exit 4
        ;; # fall back to highlight/cat if theres no lynx/elinks
esac

case "$mimetype" in
    *perl)
        highlight --out-format=ansi -S Perl "$path" | head -n $maxln
        success && exit 5 || exit 2;;
    *python)
        highlight --out-format=ansi -S Python "$path" | head -n $maxln
        success && exit 5 || exit 2;;
    # Syntax highlight for text files:
    text/* | */xml)
        highlight --out-format=ansi "$path" | head -n $maxln
        success && exit 5 || exit 2;;
    # Ascii-previews of images:
    image/*)
        img2txt --gamma=0.6 --width="$width" "$path" && exit 4 || exit 1;;
    # Display information about media files:
    video/* | audio/*)
        # Use sed to remove spaces so the output fits into the narrow window
        mediainfo "$path" | sed 's/  \+:/: /;'
        success && exit 5 || exit 1;;
esac

exit 1