#!/bin/sh
# Select a file with fzf from a database sorted by frecency and open it using
# xdg-open. frece can be found at https://github.com/YodaEmbedding/frece

DB_FILE=${FRECE_FILES_DB:-$HOME/.cache/frecent-files.csv}
item=$(frece print "$DB_FILE" | fzf --tiebreak=index --scheme=path)

[ -z "$item" ] && exit 1
frece increment "$DB_FILE" "$item"

xdg-open "$item"

#!/bin/sh
# Update frece database

DB_FILE=${FRECE_FILES_DB:-$HOME/.cache/frecent-files.csv}
tmp_file=$(mktemp)
fd -H . ~ > "$tmp_file"  # use ~/.fdignore file to exclude certain dirs
frece update "$DB_FILE" "$tmp_file" --purge-old
rm "$tmp_file"

The mojo, cpan and pip bash scripts don’t fail my test of “skimming over the source and looking for dangerous external commands like curl or rm” (good syntax highlighting is helpful here). They look like typical completion scripts. However, if your Linux distribution has a pip completion script in their repos, prefer that one.

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Wired has removed the story because it “does not meet [their] editorial standards”.