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displayfile (Skim)
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#!/bin/bash | |
# displayfile (Skim) | |
# | |
# Usage: displayfile [-r] [-g] PDFFILE | |
# | |
# Modified from "displayline" to only revert the file, not jump to a given line | |
# | |
if [ $# == 0 -o "$1" == "-h" -o "$1" == "-help" ]; then | |
echo "Usage: displayfile [-r] [-g] PDFFILE | |
Options: | |
-r, -revert Revert the file from disk if it was open | |
-g, -background Do not bring Skim to the foreground" | |
exit 0 | |
fi | |
# get arguments | |
revert=false | |
activate=true | |
while [ "${1:0:1}" == "-" ]; do | |
if [ "$1" == "-r" -o "$1" == "-revert" ]; then | |
revert=true | |
elif [ "$1" == "-g" -o "$1" == "-background" ]; then | |
activate=false | |
fi | |
shift | |
done | |
file="$1" | |
#shopt -s extglob | |
#[ $# -gt 2 ] && source="$3" || source="${file%.@(pdf|dvi|xdv)}.tex" | |
# expand relative paths | |
[ "${file:0:1}" == "/" ] || file="${PWD}/${file}" | |
# pass file arguments as NULL-separated string to osascript | |
# pass through cat to get them as raw bytes to preserve non-ASCII characters | |
/usr/bin/osascript \ | |
-e "set theFile to POSIX file \"$file\"" \ | |
-e "set thePath to POSIX path of (theFile as alias)" \ | |
-e "tell application \"Skim\"" \ | |
-e " if $activate then activate" \ | |
-e " if $revert then" \ | |
-e " try" \ | |
-e " set theDocs to get documents whose path is thePath" \ | |
-e " if (count of theDocs) > 0 then revert theDocs" \ | |
-e " end try" \ | |
-e " end if" \ | |
-e " open theFile" \ | |
-e "end tell" |
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This is a shell script that is modified from Skim
displayline
script, and is aimed to open a PDF file without a given line number.This shell script is created by Liam Huang for his workaround with LaTeX workshop (an extension of VSCode) on macOS. See this link for more information.