citadel

commit eb1b9564ae574b9655e5547f316b8f8e9d02d855
parent 951a4b5e3533f21475b7655f6ac4193e13353c09
Author: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:09:06 -0700

lessr: readonly dir fallback

Signed-off-by: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>

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bin/lessr
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1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bin/lessr b/bin/lessr
@@ -5,5 +5,13 @@ base=$(basename "$1")
 
 export LESSHISTFILE="$dir/.$base.hst"
 
+# use a fallback dir if it's not writable
+if [[ ! -w "$LESSHISTFILE" ]]
+then
+    dir="$HOME/var/marks"
+    mkdir -p "$dir"
+    export LESSHISTFILE="$dir/.$base.hst"
+fi
+
 # export LESS="-cix8JRM --save-marks"
 exec less -J --save-marks "$@"