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For a local install of zaread, the binary should go to $HOME/.local/bin
and the desktop file should go to $HOME/.local/share/applications

The current variables in the Makefile do not allow this.

For .mobi files, the value returned by file --mime-type could be:

• application/octet-stream
• application/x-mobipocket-ebook

Right now the condition to check if it's a mobi file is only searching for the first possibility:

elif [ "$file_mt" = "application/octet-stream" ] && expr "$file" : "^.*\.mobi$" 1>/dev/null  ; then

Just for a quick fix, I simply changed it to search for x-mobipocket-ebook and otherwise it works fine now.

Opening some larger spreadsheets via zaread crops them to fit printed pages making them harder to read. I wonder if it was possible to control size of pagination in zaread (for example, A4, A3 or just "fit to all" contents) to avoid this cropping?

I spend an hour searching for something like this. As you do I hate this bloated MS Office interface, it's awesome that zathura is used as default pdf reader because all other readers suck. Anyway thank you for this wonderful script

Hi, I was trying to follow links between files in zathura.

Using zathura-pdf-poppler, zathura outputs an error if it can't find the file. I used this error to redirect zathura to the correct path (assuming the file is read from the cache).

~/.local/bin/linkzathu.sh

#! /bin/sh

zathura "$1" 2> /dev/stdout  | awk -vd=$(pwd) -vc="$HOME/.cache/zaread" -F"«|»" 'NF > 0 && !/^error/ { gsub(c, d, $2); print $2 ; system("") }' | xargs -r -n 1 zaread

Setting READER="linkzathu.sh" in zareadrc, links on pdf files are opened in zathura (converted using zaread if necessary).

Example use:
A.md: has link to B.md
zaread A.md and following the B.md link, opens B.md in zaread

I don't know if you are interested in this, or if this small script fits this project at all. Feel free to add it in a section of the README or in a scripts folder, ...

First, thanks for your script, it has been very helpful.

One question: I use debian, in it the path /bin/sh é um atalho para /bin/dash. This interpreter is pretty short and doesn't understanding things like [[ ]], so zared doesn't work in it. Is there a way for the script to be more compatible with different distributions?

Thanks for this useful script. I've installed it as a default application and when I'm opening a, for example, .docx file in a Telegram Desktop, the script does nothing. Upon further inspection, it outputs:

/home/iamnotagenius/.local/share/TelegramDesktop/file://home/iamnotagenius/Downloads/Telegram%20Desktop/awin%20%234%202022.docx
cannot open `/home/iamnotagenius/.local/share/TelegramDesktop/file://home/iamnotagenius/Downloads/Telegram%20Desktop/awin%20%234%202022.docx' (No such file or directory)
/usr/bin/zaread: line 74: cd: /home/iamnotagenius/.local/share/TelegramDesktop/file://home/iamnotagenius/Downloads/Telegram%20Desktop/: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/zaread: line 74: return: can only `return' from a function or sourced script

So, I found out that the script gets file:///home/iamnotagenius/Downloads/Telegram%20Desktop/awin%20%234%202022.docx instead of an actual path. It would be nice if the script will handle this scenario.