tao - (tiny automatic opener)

Tao is a very basic xdg-open replacement written in about 100 lines of C.

Installation

Tao's only dependency is libmagic. After installing libmagic, run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/sfplayer247/tao
cd tao
make # Compiles tao
make config # Generates config files in your home directory
sudo make install # Copies the tao binary to /usr/local/bin

To remove tao, run the following commands:

rm ~/.config/tao.conf
sudo make uninstall

Configuration

Instead of being configured with .desktop files like xdg-open, tao is configured with a single config file placed in ~/.config/tao.conf. The configuration file format is very close to ini, but has some key differences:

• No sections needed
• Comments are indicated with # at the beginning of a line
• Comments cannot be placed after a rule

The current format of these rules is mode:param = program.

# Filename endswith is ends:string
ends:.html = code
# Filename startswith is strt: string
strt:LICENSE = license-pick
# Mime types are represented with mime:mimetype
mime:text/x-c = vim

Planned Features

• printf style substution of filenames
• Change mime type matching to be startswith
• Add optional regex support
• Add dry run mode
• Add web address support