movies-dmenu: Script to let user pick a movie to watch via dmenu in their ~/Movies folder, sorted newest videos first based on file modification time

movies-dmenu

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# handy to bind to global shortcut like Control-Shift-m

cd ~

nohup find Movies/ -type f |
	ruby -e '
    STDIN.each_line.map(&:chomp)
      .select{|f| File.extname(f) =~ /(?:mp3|mp4|wmv|mov|webm|m4v|mkv|avi|flv|xspf)/i}.sort_by{|f| File.mtime f }
      .reverse
      .each{|f|puts f}' |
	dmenu -fn '--fixed-bold-r-normal--60-----*-iso10646-1' -l 30 -i |
	xargs -I{} xdg-open {} > /dev/null 2>&1 &