diff --git a/home/.local/bin/select-and-copy b/home/.local/bin/select-and-copy
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0864bbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/home/.local/bin/select-and-copy
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+path=$(lf -selection-path=/dev/stdout | tail -n 1)
+copyq copy "$(xdg-mime query filetype "$path")" - < "$path" 
+niri msg action focus-window-previous && sleep .1s && copyq paste
diff --git a/home/.local/bin/xrescat b/home/.local/bin/xrescat
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..07c9491
--- /dev/null
+++ b/home/.local/bin/xrescat
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+awk -v query="$1" '
+/^!/ || length($0) == 0 { next }
+{
+	delI=index($0, ":")
+	path=substr($0, 0, delI - 1)
+	gsub(/[\\.^$(){}\[\]|+]/, "\\\\&", path)
+	gsub(/*/, ".*?", path)
+	gsub(/\\\.?\\./, "\\.[^.]*\\.", path)
+	gsub(/^\?$/, "^[^.]*$", path)
+	gsub(/^\?\\./, "^[^.]*\\.", path)
+	gsub(/\\.\?$/, "\\.[^.]*$", path)
+}
+query ~ path {
+	res=substr($0, delI + 1)
+	gsub(/^[\t ]+/, "", res)
+	printf "%s", res
+	exit
+}
+' "$HOME/.Xdefaults" 
diff --git a/paths b/paths
index 773e3fb..eed6c86 100644
--- a/paths
+++ b/paths
@@ -17,3 +17,5 @@
 /home/olive/.basilisk
 /home/olive/.zshrc
 /home/olive/.Xdefaults
+/home/olive/.local/bin/xrescat
+/home/olive/.local/bin/select-and-copy