A script to search and open chrome bookmarks from your terminal

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#!/bin/sh
#
# Search and open chrome bookmarks from your terminal.
#
# Open interactive search:
# $ b
#
# Open first fuzzy matching bookmark:
# $ b <query string>
#

set -euo pipefail

# This is where chrome bookmarks are stored on OSX, needs adjustment on other platforms.
BOOKMARKS="$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks"

if ! [ -x "$(command -v fzf)" ]; then
    echo "fzf is not installed"
    exit 1
fi

if ! [ -x "$(command -v jq)" ]; then
    echo "jq is not installed"
    exit 1
fi

_bookmarks() {
    cat "$BOOKMARKS" | jq -r '.roots[] | recurse(.children?[]?) | select(.url!=null) | "\(.name) (\(.url?))"'
}

main() {
    local f
    [ -n "$*" ] && f="-f $*"
    url=$(_bookmarks | fzf --history=$HOME/.goto.history --prompt="Search bookmark > " $f | head -1 | sed -n 's/[^(]*(\(http[^)]*\).*/\1/p')
    echo "$url"
    [ -n $url ] && open "$url"
}

main $*

Just curious, is there any particular reason why you're using -z and || and not -n and && (which I personally think is easier to read since it doesn't have any negations)?

No reason that I can remember. And I think you're absolutely right :)