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I am using a bash script to provide a search utlilty to locate and open files and directories.

here is the script:

#!/bin/bash
lxterminal -e "bicon.bin locate /home /run/media |fzf >| ~/.mylocateData"
 # ^ this the problematic part
sleep 0.4
while [[ "$(pidof fzf)" != "" ]] ; do
 sleep 0.4
done
file="$(cat ~/.mylocateData)"
if [[ -z "$file" ]] ; then exit ; fi
mimetype=$(file --dereference --brief --mime-type "$file" )
case "$mimetype" in
 inode/directory) lxterminal -e bicon.bin ranger "$file" ;;
 image/*) feh "$file" & disown ;;
 text/* | */xml) lxterminal -e vim "$file" ;;
 video/* | audio/*) mpv --really-quiet --loop "$file" & disown ;;
 application/pdf) okular "$file" & disown ;;
 application/octet-stream)
 if [[ "$file#*." == "MP3" ]]
 then
 mpv --really-quiet --loop "$file" & disown
 fi
 ;;
 *) lxterminal -e bicon.bin ranger --selectfile="$file" ;;
esac

if I run the first command with bicon.bin included the text of fzf handles the arabic filenames as expected, however the file name saved in .mylocateData file is somehow corrupted and I cannot open it. I tried some debuuging like ls "$(cat .mylocateData) to confirm.

but if I run my script without bicon.bin fzf shows the search but with arabic characters from left to right (in an ugly way ) but the file name is correctly saved regardless and it can be opened.

MY QUESTION is : how can I achieve both goals ? if it is a matter of reading the file some way other than cat ? or is it the use of fzf?

PS : I'm not interested in using dmenu, rofi ...etc, I love the way fzf works and I want to use it in my arch i3wm desktop