Home-crafted nnn plugins created for my own use. Happy to share under the Open Unlicense
ISSUE: I often want to email others (or myself!) files/attachments - sometimes entire directories - containing sensitive info such as account numbers, passwords, etc. Before doing so, I want to compress larger files and then password protect (i.e., robustly encrypt) the files.
nnn is an outstanding file manager! Being able to accomplish this compression & encryption easily within nnn would be ideal for me.
SOLUTION: So I crafted a couple of simple plugin scripts...
- arcenc - Archive Encryption using tar archival tools & gpg encryption
- arcdec - Archive Decryption, also using tar and gpg
Dependencies ... well, you need to have tar and gpg installed, which I suspect is not unusual for most Linux installations.
ISSUE: Many times, while navigating around within the nnn file manager, I want to send
a particular file via email ... either to myself (to fetch on another PC via my
email account) or more commonly to a family member, friend, or business associate.
BTW, I use the latest version of Mozilla's Thunderbird.
Frankly, it's a pain to (1) leave nnn (2) access my Thunderbird email app (3) create a new message,
(4) fish around to find that file I saw within nnn that I'd wanted to attach, (5) attach it,
(6) then start composing my message (7) send it off (8) go back to nnn and resume whatever I was doing.
And so, I created this nnn plugin (i.e., bash script, i.e., can also be used outside of nnn)
named ethunder to make this a lot easier (email attachment via Thunderbird).
USAGE: (1) Select a single file within nnn (2) invoke the plugin.
You will shortly see Thunderbid open up in composition mode with a new outgoing email with your selected file as an attachment. Enter the recipient, a subject and message if you like, and hit send.
I'm fairly new at bash scripting and made these shell scripts for my own use, so I'm SURE they could be improved upon further. I'd WELCOME any suggestions on how to streamline, improve clarity, or protect against stray input errors not currently trapped by my rudimentary case testing.
And, if you enjoy using these plugins and find them helpful in your own workflow, I'd be delighted to know.