Swytch with Wofi

wofi-swytch.sh

#!/bin/bash

#    Swytch is a script providing a window switcher for sway using rofi, awk and jq.
#    The script is based on:
#    https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/aolf3u/quick_script_for_rofi_alttabbing_window_switcher/
#    Copyright (C) 2019  Björn Sonnenschein
#
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#
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# todo: first, query all existing workspaces from sway and build color dict, so that
#   all workspaces always get the same color, even if no windows at some workspace in between exists.

# obtain command to execute with swaymsg for selected window
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
    command_=focus
else
    command_=$1
fi

# Obtain the avaliable windows' workspaces, names and IDs as strings
mapfile -t windows < <(
swaymsg -t get_tree | jq -r '[
    recurse(.nodes[]?)
    |recurse(.floating_nodes[]?)
    |select(.type=="workspace")
    | . as $workspace | recurse(.nodes[]?)
    |select(.type=="con" and .name!=null)
    |{workspace: $workspace.name, name: .name, id: .id, focused: .focused, app_id: .app_id}]
    |sort_by(.workspace, .name)[]
    |.workspace + if .focused then "* " else "  " end + .app_id + " - " +  .name + "  " + (.id|tostring)'
)
rm $HOME/.cache/wofi-dmenu

windows_separators=()
colors=(blue green orange red magenta)
workspace_previous=''
index_workspace_active=0
num_separators=0
index_color=0
bold=-1
for index_window in "${!windows[@]}"
do
    window="${windows[$index_window]}"
    # todo: consider arbitraty workspace name length by separating by space instead of simply taking first argument.
    workspace=${window:0:1}
    # obtain index of the active window
    if [ "${window:1:1}" == "*" ]
    then
        index_workspace_active=$(($index_window))
    fi

    # if window has different workspace than previous, use next color. Cycle through colors
    if [ "$workspace" != "$workspace_previous" ] && [ ! -z "$workspace_previous" ]
    then
        index_color=$index_color+1
    fi

    if (($index_color == ${#colors[@]}))
    then
        index_color=0
    fi
    if (( $bold == 1))
    then
        windows_separators+=("<b><span foreground=\"${colors[$index_color]}\">[${workspace}]</span>${window:1}</b>")
    else
        windows_separators+=("<span foreground=\"${colors[$index_color]}\">[${workspace}]</span>${window:1}")
    fi
    workspace_previous=$workspace
done

HEIGHT=$(( $(printf '%s\n' "${windows_separators[@]}" | wc -l) * 30 ))

echo $HEIGHT

# Select window with rofi, obtaining ID of selected window
idx_selected=$(printf '%s\n' "${windows_separators[@]}" | wofi -d -p "$command_" -m -H $HEIGHT )
selected=${windows[$idx_selected]}
id_selected=$(echo $selected | awk '{print $NF}')
workspace_selected=${selected:0:1}


### unmaximize all maximized windows on the workspace of the selected window
# Obtain the avaliable windows' workspaces, names and IDs as strings
mapfile -t ids_windows_maximized < <(
swaymsg -t get_tree | jq -r '[
    recurse(.nodes[]?)
    |recurse(.floating_nodes[]?)
    |select(.type=="workspace")
    | . as $workspace | recurse(.nodes[]?)
    |select(.type=="con" and .name!=null and .fullscreen_mode==1 and $workspace.name=="'"$workspace_selected"'")
    |{workspace: $workspace.name, name: .name, id: .id, focused: .focused, app_id: .app_id}]
    |sort_by(.workspace, .name)[]
    |(.id|tostring)'
)

# unmaximize the maximized windows that are not the selected one
for id_window_maximized in "${ids_windows_maximized[@]}"
do
    if [ "$id_window_maximized" != "$id_selected" ]
    then
        swaymsg "[con_id=$id_window_maximized] fullscreen disable"
    fi
done

# Tell sway to focus said window
# todo: do not execute if selected is the separator
if [ ! -z "$id_selected" ]
then
    swaymsg "[con_id=$id_selected] $command_"
fi

Displays correctly, but fails to switch to an app with an error message like so:

scripts/wofi-swytch.sh: line 90: <span foreground="green">[2]</span>* terminator - ~/sway  644: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "<span foreground="green">[2]</span>* terminator - ~/sway  644")