yad VS croc

Aside from the obvious uses - command line scripts - you can also do quite a bit with the GUI. Check out Yad for bash script GUI. X11 related tools like wmctrl, xdotool allow you to create spectacular scripts. I write and use numerous dynamic menus created with bash + jgmenu.

Are you referring to yad?

git clone https://github.com/v1cont/yad.git yad-dialog-code

yad - Program allows you to display GTK+ dialog boxes from command line or shell scripts. YAD depends on GTK+ only.

yad pushing your shell scripts to the next level via user inputs. For example i wrote a small script which lets me select an environment and an app and the url+port is written into the clipboard.

I make a lot of use of yad (which I think is in the standard repository) to give a GUI-like feel to my scripts. yad is a significant advance over zenity.

make a binding on an empty workspace that calls a yad script at the cursor

You might want to look at yad to add a GUI dialogue box to your script. Something like:

I like yad[0] for this. For example, I use it to present a GUI color picker to change/insert colors in Vim (via a plugin called vCoolor[1]). I also use it in some i3/sway scripts that need user input or to show a progress bar.

[0]: https://github.com/v1cont/yad

[1]: https://github.com/KabbAmine/vCoolor.vim

zenity should be a simple start https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/zenity (and apparently there is a fork too https://github.com/v1cont/yad but haven't tried it)

This very hn entries is bust contradicting your statement.

Also what about syncthing[1] (for recurrent/permanent sync) and croc[2] (for one time copies) ?

I have used both for a number of years already.

[1] https://syncthing.net/

[2] https://github.com/schollz/croc

Check out croc, I've been using it for years, and it works pretty great too!

https://github.com/schollz/croc

I'm trying to find very specific software.I need CLI(!!!) tool like Croc to share files using P2P, but it's very inconvenient to ask people to install same software as me(Croc in this case). Instead i want to get direct download URL, so anyone can download it just by using browser.

Related projects:

- FlyingCarpet: direct transfer over local adhoc WIFI: https://github.com/spieglt/FlyingCarpet

- LANDrop: Drop any files to any devices on your LAN: https://github.com/LANDrop/LANDrop

- In-browser file transfer similar to Airdrop: https://snapdrop.net/

- Magic Wormhole: simple file transfer from computer-to-computer over the net: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

- Croc: similar to magic wormhole: https://github.com/schollz/croc

- Wormhole: user-friendly in-browser based e2e encrypted file transfer: https://wormhole.app/

There’s already the excellent [croc](https://github.com/schollz/croc) which I’ve gotten all my friends to install and use.