Environment Variables

While calling a command, xplr set a few environment variables. You can see them by invoking a shell in a directory.

With the default key bindings run xplr, then press :!. This will invoke bash.

Then you can run

env | grep ^XPLR_

Example output:

XPLR_FOCUS_INDEX=0
XPLR_PIPE_SELECTION_OUT=/run/user/1000/xplr/session/234404/pipe/selection_out
XPLR_INPUT_BUFFER=
XPLR_SELECTION=
XPLR_RESULT=/home/sayanarijit/Documents/GitHub/xplr/benches
XPLR_PID=234404
XPLR_PIPE_MSG_IN=/run/user/1000/xplr/session/234404/pipe/msg_in
XPLR_APP_YAML=---
XPLR_FOCUS_PATH=/home/sayanarijit/Documents/GitHub/xplr/benches
XPLR_SESSION_PATH=/run/user/1000/xplr/session/234404
XPLR_DIRECTORY_NODES=/home/sayanarijit/Documents/GitHub/xplr/benches
XPLR_LOGS=
XPLR_PIPE_FOCUS_OUT=/run/user/1000/xplr/session/234404/pipe/focus_out
XPLR_GLOBAL_HELP_MENU=### create file

This will list the variables exported by xplr. Many variables (e.g. XPLR_LOGS, XPLR_SELECTION etc.) are multiline variables. So you need to use the echo -e "$var" syntax while printing them and read -r var while reading them.