#!/bin/sh # This "disenchant" script allows you to remove an extended attribute from a file. # To use this script, pass the file and the key name as arguments. If no key name is specified, the script will provide # a menu of the extended attribute keys on the file and allow you to select one with the arrow keys to delete. # The menu is only displayed if there are at least two extended attributes (not counting the '# file:' line). # If only one extended attribute is found, the script will delete that attribute without displaying the menu. # Disenchant a single attribute from a file disenchant_one() { key="$1" file="$2" if command -v xattr > /dev/null 2>&1; then # xattr is available, use it xattr -d "$key" "$file" elif command -v attr > /dev/null 2>&1; then # attr is available, use it attr -r "$key" "$file" elif command -v setfattr > /dev/null 2>&1; then # setfattr is available, use it setfattr -x "$key" "$file" else # xattr, attr, and setfattr are not available echo "Error: xattr, attr, and setfattr are not available on this system." exit 1 fi echo "Disenchanted $key attribute from $file." } # Check if a file was given as an argument if [ -z "$1" ]; then # If no file was given, print an error message and exit echo "Error: No file specified. Usage: disenchant file [key]" exit 1 fi # Read the extended attribute keys from the file keys=$(read-magic "$1") # Extract the attribute keys from the output of read-magic keys=$(echo "$keys" | awk -F: '{print $1}' | tr -d ' ') # Check if a key name was given as an argument if [ -z "$2" ]; then # If no key name was given, check if there are at least two extended attributes if [ $(echo "$keys" | wc -l) -lt 2 ]; then # If there is only one extended attribute, delete it key=$(echo "$keys") disenchant_one "$key" "$1" else # If there are at least two extended attributes, provide a menu of the keys and select one with the arrow keys keys="$keys disenchant-all" times=$(($(echo "$keys" | wc -l) + 1)) desc="# disenchant this" descriptions=() for ((i = 1; i <= $times; i++)); do descriptions+=("$desc") done echo "${descriptions[@]}" menu "Choose which attribute to disenchant:" "$keys" $descriptions "menu_choice" # todo / problem: $descriptions needs to be a string but then it's only space-delimited so many commands cant work. solution is to refactor the menu script, splitting it up into many small and complete semantic scripts, and building a better more holistic and composed menu with lots of better building blocks. or using bmenu. echo $menu_choice key=${keys[$menu_choice]} if [ -n "$key" ]; then if [ "$key" = "disenchant all" ]; then # Disenchant all extended attributes for key in $keys; do disenchant_one "$key" "$1" done echo "Disenchanted all attributes from $1." break else # Disenchant the selected attribute echo KEY $key echo FILE $1 disenchant_one "$key" "$1" break fi else # If no key was selected, print an error message and exit echo "Error: No key selected." exit 1 fi fi else # If a key name was given, use it as the key key="$2" # Disenchant the selected attribute disenchant_one "$key" "$1" fi