From 17bd886e3ad960780954efeab04ad95ee18bcccb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rushmore75 <oliveratkinsoneng@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 14:35:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add recipies

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 README.md | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -47,4 +47,41 @@ This has some issues:
 Interestingly, I found the same trick they use to allow for menus to be printed but also pipe the output.
 By putting them menu on `stderr` instead of `stdout` you can have a menu that doesn't get yoinked by the pipe's reidrection.
 
+# Recipies
+
+> Note: I have the program wrapper script on my `$PATH` and have the wrapper script renamed to `opts`.
+
+
+Show all directories, entering the selected one.
+
+```bash
+cd $(ls -la | grep dr | awk '{ print $9 }' | opts)
+```
+
+---
+
+Show all partitions, mounting the selected one at `/mnt`.
+
+```bash
+sudo mount $(lsblk -lno type,name | grep part | awk '{ print "/dev/" $2 }' | opts) /mnt
+```
+
+You could even do the filtering after the fact, to give the user more info.
+```bash
+sudo mount $(lsblk | opts | awk '{ print $1 }') /mnt
+```
+(But this would allow you to select bad data.)
+
+---
+
+Choose what video codec to change all the videos in the current directory to.
+
+```bash
+OPTS="mpeg4\nh265\nh264"
+SEL=$(printf $OPTS | opts)
+
+for x in $(ls); do
+	ffmpeg -i $x -v:c $SEL ${x}-enc.mp4
+done
+```