I decided to try shell scripting by making myself a nice configurable menu using dmenu that I can add commands to and that isn't cluttered with desktop entries. Worked suprisingly well tbh

Moments after posting I've realised that this would execute lines where the command would contain the chosen option, so if I were to add something like "term", every line that contains i3-sensible-terminal would run, one after the other. Now it's sorta fixed. Don't use grep unless you want exactly what it does, I guess.

I love awk, btw.

I won't lie. I had a hard time opening that first image.

PS: Show us a quick demo!

It took a bit of hacking (as seen on the picture) because dmenu2 locks the keyboard, but here you go. Didn't populate it yet, just with three different use cases I wanted to test. (basic program, terminal, flatpak)

Tbh I think this would be far easier done in something like Python
Perhaps a bit wordier but way easier to read and write

@RememberMe I disagree, the second version is as readable as it gets knowing that awk manipulates columns, dmenu lets me choose one of the input lines and sh executes a command. The main reason why I think this is that there's nothing quite like awk for python, so I would inevitably have to write loops, which is a lot of unnecessary information.