select color from terminal


# colorpicker

Use colorpicker from the command line to select colors. 

For instance:
surf \((echo "https://www.colorhexa.com/"\)(colorpicker –short –one-shot –preview | tr -d "#"))

As usual, there is most probably a better way to do this, but anyway. We break it down into several steps. 


## $(colorpicker –short –one-shot –preview | tr -d "#")

What this does is first call **colorpicker** with ****–short**** which returns html color codes, ****–one-shot**** whcih cause colorpicker to exit after one click, and ****–preview**** which displays a small square in the bottom right corner of the screen filled with the color under the cursor.

Pipe this into **tr** using ****-d**** to delete the hash ****#****.

Wrap the whole thing in a command substitution.


## surf $(echo "<https://www.colorhexa.com/>" &#x2026; )

This is simple you **echo** the url concat with the previous command sub result and generate a url to pass to **surf** or your favorite browser. 


## Alternative

colorpicker &#x2013;short &#x2013;one-shot &#x2013;preview | xclip -sel clip

Just pipe the result of **colorpicker** into xclip or any other clipboard manager, and you can paste the result into your code.

I have a keybinding in **stumpwm** 
(define-key **top-map** (kbd "s-c") "exec colorpicker &#x2013;short &#x2013;one-shot &#x2013;preview | xclip -sel clip")
So that I can grab colors on the fly.