Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting things

Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by maximus-decimus on Thursday October 27, 2022 @10:59AM (#33358536)

How do you use dmenu for your shell script? to launch it? to prompt the user for input while it's running?

Do you have an example of a script you wrote?

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by ducktective on Thursday October 27, 2022 @11:29AM (#33359061)

Yes, for creating ad-hoc mini-UIs so the user can select an option. Same with fzf, but it's terminal-bound (rather than X-bound).

The scripts are similar to this one:

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by maximus-decimus on Thursday October 27, 2022 @10:32PM (#33366876)

Thanks, I will definitively use that kill one.

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by sargstuff on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:34AM (#33372751)

WASM gawk with html as user input/output more flexible.

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