ID

78bf9c8

date

2026-09-27 14:34:21+00:00

author

Alex Chan <alex@alexwlchan.net>

parent

be6ecc1

message

macos: add my fshard script; remove set_iterm2_tab_title.py

changed files

2 files, 25 additions, 10 deletions

• macos/README.md
• macos/fshard

Changed files

macos/README.md (7570 → 7750)

diff --git a/macos/README.md b/macos/README.md
index 4541e1f..8603394 100644
--- a/macos/README.md
+++ b/macos/README.md
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ scripts = [
         "description": "print the path to the frontmost selected item in Finder"
     },
     {
+        "name": "fshard",
+        "description": "print the lowercased first character of the filename of the frontmost selected item in Finder"
+    },
+    {
         "name": "furl",
         "description": "get the URL of the frontmost Safari window"
     },
@@ -141,6 +145,15 @@ cog_helpers.create_description_table(folder_name=folder_name, scripts=scripts)
   </dd>
 
   <dt>
+    <a href="https://github.com/alexwlchan/scripts/blob/main/macos/fshard">
+      <code>fshard</code>
+    </a>
+  </dt>
+  <dd>
+    print the lowercased first character of the filename of the frontmost selected item in Finder
+  </dd>
+
+  <dt>
     <a href="https://github.com/alexwlchan/scripts/blob/main/macos/furl">
       <code>furl</code>
     </a>
@@ -222,15 +235,6 @@ cog_helpers.create_description_table(folder_name=folder_name, scripts=scripts)
   </dd>
 
   <dt>
-    <a href="https://github.com/alexwlchan/scripts/blob/main/macos/set_iterm_tab_title.py">
-      <code>set_iterm_tab_title.py TITLE</code>
-    </a>
-  </dt>
-  <dd>
-    Set the title of a tab in iTerm 2
-  </dd>
-
-  <dt>
     <a href="https://github.com/alexwlchan/scripts/blob/main/macos/sterilise">
       <code>sterilise [PATH]</code>
     </a>
@@ -260,4 +264,4 @@ cog_helpers.create_description_table(folder_name=folder_name, scripts=scripts)
     </p>
   </dd>
 </dl>
-<!-- [[[end]]] (sum: uJMF1iuiOs) -->
+<!-- [[[end]]] (sum: HJjXQ1mrjm) -->

macos/fshard (0 → 318)

diff --git a/macos/fshard b/macos/fshard
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..a5f71c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/macos/fshard
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# fshard prints the lowercased first character of the filename of the
+# frontmost selected item in Finder.
+#
+# I use this when sharding files into directories based on filenames.
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+
+filename=$(basename "$(ffile)")
+echo -n "${filename:0:1}" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'