This is just a simple script which fetches all of the patches from https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/ and parses each page for a description and a patch name.
It is recommended that you save the output of this script to a file and parse it from there since every diff and description must be individually requested and parsed, making the script slow and unncessarily spam the suckless servers. There is a built in threaded mode and delay option which should be used with discretion. My intention is not to DDoS suckless, so do set the delay option to something other than 0 please!
- Listing the urls of all of the diffs
- Listing all of the patches
- bash (obviously)
- html-xml-utils
- curl
- grep
Good question. The main reason I made this was becuase I was curious which version of dwm was more widely supported, and which patches did in fact support it. Using my script and the handy math function from my favorite shell fish I found that 70.2% of patches have explicit support for 6.2.
math (./dwm-patch-fetch.sh | grep "6.2" | wc -l)/(./dwm-patch-fetch.sh -l | wc -l)The reason I say 'explicit' is because some patches aren't named mycoolpatch-6.2.diff so its hard to really know an exact number through scripting, but we can safely say that over 70% of patches work with 6.2.
If you're curious about what percentage of patches explicitly support 6.3, you should download the script and find out! I can't do all the work.