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| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| # List Claude sessions for the current directory (and subdirectories), pick one with fzf, | |
| # then resume it. Ctrl+D deletes the selected session. | |
| PROJECTS_DIR="$HOME/.claude/projects" | |
| ENCODED_CWD=$(echo "$PWD" | tr '/' '-') | |
| # Write the entry-generator to a temp script so fzf reload can call it. | |
| GEN=$(mktemp /tmp/resume-gen.XXXXXX.sh) | |
| trap 'rm -f "$GEN"' EXIT | |
| export PROJECTS_DIR ENCODED_CWD | |
| cat > "$GEN" << 'GENEOF' | |
| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| ago() { | |
| local diff=$(( $(date +%s) - $1 )) | |
| if (( diff < 60 )); then echo "just now" | |
| elif (( diff < 3600 )); then echo "$(( diff / 60 )) minutes ago" | |
| elif (( diff < 86400 )); then echo "$(( diff / 3600 )) hours ago" | |
| elif (( diff < 604800 )); then echo "$(( diff / 86400 )) days ago" | |
| elif (( diff < 2592000 )); then echo "$(( diff / 604800 )) weeks ago" | |
| else echo "$(( diff / 2592000 )) months ago" | |
| fi | |
| } | |
| mapfile -t JSONL_FILES < <( | |
| find "$PROJECTS_DIR" -maxdepth 2 -name '*.jsonl' \ | |
| -path "*/${ENCODED_CWD}*" 2>/dev/null | |
| ) | |
| entries=() | |
| for file in "${JSONL_FILES[@]}"; do | |
| [[ -f "$file" ]] || continue | |
| session_id=$(basename "$file" .jsonl) | |
| mtime_epoch=$(stat -c '%Y' "$file") | |
| age=$(ago "$mtime_epoch") | |
| label=$(grep -m1 '"type":"custom-title"' "$file" \ | |
| | jq -r '.customTitle // empty' 2>/dev/null) | |
| if [[ -z "$label" ]]; then | |
| while IFS= read -r line; do | |
| text=$(jq -r ' | |
| .message.content | | |
| if type == "string" then . | |
| elif type == "array" then ([ .[] | select(.type=="text") | .text ][0] // "") | |
| else "" end' <<< "$line" 2>/dev/null) | |
| text="${text//$'\n'/ }" | |
| text="${text:0:120}" | |
| if [[ -n "$text" && "${text:0:1}" != "<" ]]; then | |
| label="$text" | |
| break | |
| fi | |
| done < <(grep '"type":"user"' "$file") | |
| fi | |
| [[ -z "$label" ]] && label="(empty session)" | |
| entries+=("${mtime_epoch}"$'\t'"${session_id}"$'\t'"${label}"$'\t'"${age}") | |
| done | |
| while IFS=$'\t' read -r mtime session_id label age; do | |
| printf '%s\t%s\n\e[2m %s\e[0m\0' "$session_id" "$label" "$age" | |
| done < <(printf '%s\n' "${entries[@]}" | sort -rn) | |
| GENEOF | |
| chmod +x "$GEN" | |
| chosen=$( | |
| bash "$GEN" \ | |
| | fzf --read0 --multi-line --ansi \ | |
| --delimiter=$'\t' \ | |
| --with-nth='2..' \ | |
| --highlight-line \ | |
| --height=100% \ | |
| --bind "ctrl-d:execute-silent( | |
| find '$PROJECTS_DIR' -name '{1}.jsonl' -delete 2>/dev/null | |
| )+reload(bash '$GEN')" \ | |
| --footer=$'\e[2m enter\e[0m open \e[2mctrl-d\e[0m delete \e[2mesc\e[0m cancel' | |
| ) | |
| [[ -z "$chosen" ]] && exit 0 | |
| session_id=$(echo "$chosen" | head -1 | cut -f1) | |
| exec claude --dangerously-skip-permissions --resume "$session_id" |
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