adsr/sp

Easy access to file paths in your screen or tmux session

sp

I sometimes find myself using the mouse to copy a path visible on the terminal that was printed by another program (e.g., find, git), usually with intent to paste it as a parameter to another shell command. sp helps you do this without using the mouse.

sp stands for screen path(s).

Synopsis

adam@asx1c2:~/tmp$ find
.
./file-a
./file-b
./dir
./dir/file-c
adam@asx1c2:~/tmp$ sp
0 ./file-a
1 ./file-b
2 ./dir
3 ./dir/file-c
adam@asx1c2:~/tmp$ sp 2
./dir
adam@asx1c2:~/tmp$ sp c
./dir/file-c
adam@asx1c2:~/tmp$ sp d
./dir
adam@asx1c2:~/tmp$ sp @d
./dir
./dir/file-c
adam@asx1c2:~/tmp$ sp nope
adam@asx1c2:~/tmp$ echo $?
1
adam@asx1c2:~/tmp$ sp 999
Path index 999 out of range.
adam@asx1c2:~/tmp$ echo $?
1
adam@asx1c2:~/tmp$ echo $(sp 3)
./dir/file-c

Limitations

sp only works from inside screen or tmux.