06-16-2003
My humble bare knowledge and incomplete understanding tells me you would like to do some ncurses-like thing. However, I don't think ncurses libraries can be driven by a shell script. Needs some C programming i think.
Otherwise, I think the only way left is to use embed ANSI color sequences but it just adds some color and you can't have effects like the use of arrow keys to jump between and highlight items etc.
9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm working on a script for a basic menu with four options. The first option for the menu asks a user to put in anyone's user name and is supposed to display the user's home directory. If a user does not enter a name, then their own home directory should be displayed. The second menu option is... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: sinjin
0 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
So, I need help writing a Menu script in UNIX.
First how can I use letters for the options instead of numbers?
Also, is there any templates out on the web I can use? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Gboy
2 Replies
3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there, I am new to Unix and at the moment
I am trying to solve my assignment that is to create a script for the program
to prompt user to type three codes,
from user point of view it should be done by
typing codes separating them by spaces.
Then program displays a menu with these three... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Dannel
2 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi , I have a menu driven script as shown below
echo ""
echo "*** 1 - option 1 " echo "*** "
echo "*** 2 - option 2 "
echo "*** 3 - option 3 "
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ultimatix
3 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi guys, how would you do the following? I have a menu with 5 options in my shell script:
1. Run function 1 against files
2. Run function 2 against files
3. Run function 3 against files
4. Run function 4 against files
5. Run function 5 against files
I'd like to be able to run multiple... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: rich@ardz
10 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Problem:
I am trying to create a menu in a menu script and I am running into an issue with the calculator portion of the script. I am first presented with the ==Options Menu== which all 5 options working correctly. Now comes the fun part. I select option 1 which takes me to my ==Calculator... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: iDdraig
1 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all i am a newbie to this
is there any examples on creating a main menu with 3 sub menu
main menu -> option a , b and c
a menu -> option 1 ,2 and 3
b menu -> option 1 ,2
c menu -> option 1 ,2
i am getting headache as my code kept getting unexpected EOF
---------- Post... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: chercm
0 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I want to design a script that will call an existing menu script and select options one by one and redirict the out put to a file.
For example;-
In the script MENU.sh there are 10 options i want to design a script MENU2.sh that will select option 2 3 4 6 7 10 and redirict the output... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: spradha
4 Replies
9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I installed CentOS 8 with Gnome 3.28.2 and I noticed that the "switch user" menu item disappeared from under the system menu of Gnome classic (Both X11 & Wayland). I checked google and this problem seems to have a history going back several releases of Gnome.
Unfortunately, I never found a... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: bodisha
1 Replies
LEARN ABOUT LINUX
ncurses5-config
ncurses5-config(1) General Commands Manual ncurses5-config(1)
NAME
ncurses5-config - helper script for ncurses libraries
SYNOPSIS
ncurses5-config [options]
DESCRIPTION
This is a shell script which simplifies configuring applications against a particular set of ncurses libraries.
OPTIONS
--prefix
echos the package-prefix of ncurses
--exec-prefix
echos the executable-prefix of ncurses
--cflags
echos the C compiler flags needed to compile with ncurses
--libs echos the libraries needed to link with ncurses
--version
echos the release+patchdate version of ncurses
--abi-version
echos the ABI version of ncurses
--mouse-version
echos the mouse-interface version of ncurses
--bindir
echos the directory containing ncurses programs
--datadir
echos the directory containing ncurses data
--includedir
echos the directory containing ncurses header files
--libdir
echos the directory containing ncurses libraries
--mandir
echos the directory containing ncurses manpages
--terminfo
echos the $TERMINFO terminfo database path, e.g.,
/usr/share/terminfo
--terminfo-dirs
echos the $TERMINFO_DIRS directory list, e.g.,
/etc/terminfo:/lib/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo
--termpath
echos the $TERMPATH termcap list, if support for termcap is configured.
--help prints this message
SEE ALSO
ncurses(3NCURSES)
This describes ncurses version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
ncurses5-config(1)