paste: no delimiters specified

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paste: no delimiters specified

bburns-ds opened this issue 2 years ago · comments

Hello, I am trying to run the lf-ueberzug gadget directly just to preview the demo files. The .txt displays, but the other four do not. After I quit I get
paste: no delimiters specified
cleanup:kill:2: kill 22096 failed: no such process

I'd imagine this is from the
cat <<-EOF | paste -sd '' >"$LF_UEBERZUG_TEMPDIR/fifo"
in lf-ueberzug-previewer, but I don't know why this would be getting no delimiters specified. I am using zsh, but I'm guessing it might just be an OS issue.

I also have no idea what is causing the second line that is returned, so any help there would be welcome as well, assuming it's independent of the first.

Ben Burns · Answer 1 · Wed Mar 16 2022 05:52:43 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I tried adding the \0 delimiter and I still get both messages

Stanislaw Hüll · Answer 2 · Sat Mar 19 2022 04:36:13 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @bburns-ds :-) Are you on a GNU/Linux or are you running non-GNU coreutils? Kindly, run paste --version in a shell (mine returns paste (GNU coreutils) 9.0).

Alternatively, we can remove the whole call to paste as its only purpose is to prettify the json input. Try this inside the lf-ueberzug-previewer:

preview() {
	echo "{\"action\":\"add\",\"identifier\":\"lf-preview\",\"path\":\"$1\",\"x\":$4,\"y\":$5,\"width\":$2,\"height\":$3,\"scaler\":\"contain\"}" > "$LF_UEBERZUG_TEMPDIR/fifo"
}

...

Ben Burns · Answer 3 · Sun Mar 20 2022 06:08:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I get -- - illegal option but if I try to install I get coreutils 9.0_1 is already installed and up-to-date. :/

Stanislaw Hüll · Answer 4 · Sun Mar 20 2022 16:14:05 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Okay, let's keep digging: which linux distribution do you use? And does the alternative preview function work? (Just replace it inside lf-ueberzug-previewer)

Ben Burns · Answer 5 · Mon Mar 21 2022 09:05:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Alright sorry I fixed my .zprofile, and GNU paste is working now. If I use either the version of lf-ueberzug-previewer in the repo, or the version you provided above, the files all give a perpetual loading... (including the .txt, which was somehow working before this).

If I quit lf-ueberzug, then I have to ^C twice, and get back cleanup:kill:2: kill 18xxx failed: no such process, with the xxx being some three digits.

I am going to keep trying some things on my end to see if this is all a result of me having written bad configs and profiles.