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Watchbind

Piping

If you want to use pipes in your command, make sure to escape the pipe symbol like so:

watchbind ls \| grep "test"

or put quotes around the command

watchbind "ls | grep test"

Shell

The commands you bind to keys will be executed in a subshell using sh -c.

This means you can run a command like

watchbind --bind "enter:notify-send \$LINE" ls

and it will replace $LINE with the selected line in the subshell.

But note that

watchbind --bind "enter:notify-send $LINE" ls

will not work as expected, because $LINE will be replaced in the shell you are running the watchbind command from.