trigout - Trigger based formatter

Usage

trigout ships with two binaries, trigout and trigin.

trigout <socket name> <file name>

NOTE: for usage of filename, socket name MUST be provided.

Default socket name is 0. If filename is provided, stdout will also be copied over to the file, overwriting it.

Configuration

Config file: ~/.config/trigout.json Each new socket address requires configuration in the json file

json [ { "sock_name": "a", // Socket name to connect "format_str": "Hi! Date is {date}. Time is {h}:{m}:{s}", } // Other sockets ]

Formatting

Use {<var name>} inside the string. <var name> can be a-zA-Z0-9

Examples

This is a sample use case outlining all the features of trigout. The given example is for a status bar for dwm (my fork).

Configuration

[
  {
    "sock_name": "dwm",
    "format_str": "{date} | {volume}",
  }
]

2 scripts are used, one to get the date and time formatted and one for volume

Script

echo "volume=70%" | trigin dwm -> Implementation of input

trigout dwm /tmp/dwm-status -> Creates a file which will be updated whenever stdout is updated

ls /tmp/dwm-status | entr update-dwm-status -> Use entr to monitor the file for changes and run the update-dwm-status script.

Potential use cases

• Status bar for a minimal window manager like dwm
• Auto compilation

LICENSE

trigout is licensed under the GPL-3 license.