We use sort to generate the list of commands ordered by their use count.
---
dmenu_path | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
mode change 100644 => 100755 dmenu_path
diff --git a/dmenu_path b/dmenu_path
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 338bac4..b6f5a9b
--- a/dmenu_path
+++ b/dmenu_path
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
#!/bin/sh
+if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+ echo "Need a history file as first argument."
+ exit
+else
+ HISTORY=$1
+fi
+
cachedir=${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-"$HOME/.cache"}
if [ -d "$cachedir" ]; then
cache=$cachedir/dmenu_run
@@ -7,7 +14,8 @@ else
fi
IFS=:
if stest -dqr -n "$cache" $PATH; then
- stest -flx $PATH | sort -u | tee "$cache"
+ stest -flx $PATH | sort -u > "$cache"
+ sort -r -n -t ' ' -k 2 "$HISTORY" | cut -f 1 | cat - "$cache"
else
- cat "$cache"
+ sort -r -n -t ' ' -k 2 "$HISTORY" | cut -f 1 | cat - "$cache"
fi
--
2.6.2
