updates

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/dmenu/dmenu_path b/dmenu/dmenu_path
index 3a7cda7..9b3b1f2 100755
--- a/dmenu/dmenu_path
+++ b/dmenu/dmenu_path
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 #!/bin/sh
+#
+# dmenu_path: Override dmenu_path sorting results by atime.
+#
+# By default, dmenu_path sorts executables alphabetically. It seems to make
+# more sense to sort them by atime in an effort to reduce the number of
+# keystrokes needed to start a program.
 
-cachedir="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-"$HOME/.cache"}"
-cache="$cachedir/dmenu_run"
-
-[ ! -e "$cachedir" ] && mkdir -p "$cachedir"
-
-IFS=:
-if stest -dqr -n "$cache" $PATH; then
-	stest -flx $PATH | sort -u | tee "$cache"
-else
-	cat "$cache"
-fi
+echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n' | uniq | sed 's#$#/#' | # List directories in $PATH
+  xargs ls -lu --time-style=+%s |                # Add atime epoch
+  awk '/^(-|l)/ { print $6, $7 }' |              # Only print timestamp and name
+  sort -rn | cut -d' ' -f 2