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by hallgrim 409 days ago
On macOS there is xBar (haven't tried it) and SwiftBar [1]

Its really cool because it lets you use any shell-executable file, including bash scripts, python scripts (with shebangs and made executable), as a menu bar tool. The standard output is expected to follow a very simple structure and will be used to create the menu bar tool's text/icon. You can have your scripts simply output emoji as well!

Not just that, but any output after a `---` will be treated as drop down options, and depending on format, those can contain info, or be exectuable actions.

Verrrry useful for all sorts of things.

1. https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar