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nativefier wrapper removing bundled electron to use shared / system-wide elecron
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#! /usr/bin/env bash | |
# To use apps created with this script you will need Electron installed e.g. with npm install -g electron | |
set -e | |
if [ -z "$1" ] || [ -z "$2" ]; then | |
echo "Please specify app name and URL. E.g. $0 Example https://example.com" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
name="$1" | |
url="$2" | |
if [ -d "$name" ]; then | |
echo "Error: $name already exists, please delete or rename the directory" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
nativefier --disable-dev-tools --single-instance --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/999 Safari/537.36" -n "$name" "$url" "$name" | |
suf=$(head /dev/urandom | tr -d -C a-z0-9 | head -c 8) | |
tmp_dir="${name}_${suf}" | |
mv "$name" "$tmp_dir" | |
subdirs=("$tmp_dir"/*) | |
if [ ${#subdirs[@]} -eq 1 ]; then | |
app_dir="${subdirs[0]}" | |
mv "${app_dir}/resources/app" "$name" | |
rm -rf "$tmp_dir" | |
echo "Done. Now you can launch this app with electron $(readlink -f $name)" | |
else | |
echo "Something went wrong" | |
mv "$tmp_dir" "$name" | |
fi |
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Ah, I see what you're trying to do here (I didn't spend a lot of time digging into it earlier). the
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doesn't help on mac, keep it as-dc
. Here's a snippet that works for me. Maybe it works for you too and or there's a middle ground?suf=$(cat /dev/urandom | LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc 'a-z0-9' | fold -w 8 | head -n 1)