displayfile (Skim)

displayfile

#!/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"

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.