paste-pastebin.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Might need some sort of loop param or a from-to param
# If we have for--to, then I'll need to run dmenu twice and store
# all intermediate results into a list to feed to mpv
# We need to grab the playlist from $arg
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "$0: We need a filename"
    exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then
    echo "$0: filename $1 doesn't exist. Please check again."
    exit 1
fi
FN="$1"

MPVARGS="--video-aspect=16:9"
# Filename exists, let's rock and roll
OLD_XMODIFIERS="${XMODIFIERS}"
unset XMODIFIERS
FStr1="$(dmenu -l 40 -p "Start from: " < <(cat ""$1"" | cut -f2 -d#))"
if [ -z "${FStr1}" ]; then
    echo "$0: no entry chosen, leaving."
    XMODIFIERS="${OLD_XMODIFIERS}"
    exit 0
fi
unset XMODIFIERS
FStr2="$(dmenu -l 40 -p "Play to: " < <(cat ""$1"" | cut -f2 -d#))"
if [ -z "${FStr2}" ]; then
    echo "$0: no entry chosen, playing one episode."
    FINDSTRING=${FStr1}
else
    # A suggestion was to use sed to grab all lines from FStr1 to FStr2
    # FINDSTRING="$(sed -e '/'$FStr1'/,/'$FStr2'/!d' < <(cat ""$1"" | cut -f2 -d#))"
    echo "FStr1: ${FStr1}"
    echo "FStr2: ${FStr2}"
    echo "\$1: $1"

    bang="$(awk -v s1="$FStr1" -v s2="$FStr2" -F' *# *' 'index( $2, s1 ) , index( $2, s2 ) { print $1 }' "${FN}"  )"
    declare -p bang
    mapfile -t FINDSTRING < <( awk -v s1="$FStr1" -v s2="$FStr2" -F' *# *' 'index( $2, s1 ) , index( $2, s2 ) { print $1 }' "${FN}" )
    echo "FINDSTRING:  ${FINDSTRING[@]}"
    #mapfile -t FINDSTRING < <( awk -v s1="$FStr1" -v s2="$FStr2" -F' *# *' 'index( $2, s1 ) , index( $2, s2 ) { print $1 }' "$1" )
fi
XMODIFIERS="${OLD_XMODIFIERS}"


# Let's go!
echo "FINDSTRING:  ${FINDSTRING[@]}"
# mpv "${urls[@]}"
#mpv "${MPVARGS}" "$(grep "${FINDSTRING}" "$1" )"
XMODIFIERS="${OLD_XMODIFIERS}"