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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help with scripting a simple menu Post 302323331 by Jsmith on Saturday 6th of June 2009 07:02:44 PM
Old 06-06-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidyadhar85
Are you sure its not homework??SmilieSmilie
hmmm anyways
read <varname>
the <varname> will store whatever entered from Standard I/O
you can use $<varname> where ever you want
Not homework I swear! I'm 32 years old and only got my first computer ever last year. Before that the most I had ever done with one is clock in and out of my old warehouse job.
 

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install-menu(1) 					      Debian GNU/Linux manual						   install-menu(1)

NAME
install-menu - Process a menu method and generate the menu files for a window manager or a menu-aware application. DESCRIPTION
update-menus(1) computes the list of menu entries and passes it in turn to the menu methods in /etc/menu-methods/. The task of a menu meth- ods is to generate menus for a specific window manager. install-menu provides a generic and customizable way to do that. The documentation of the install-menu definition language is available in the Debian Menu manual, a local copy being available in /usr/share/doc/menu/html. SYNOPSIS
install-menu [-vh] [--remove] <menu-method> Read menu entries from stdin in update-menus --stdout format and generate menu files using the specified menu-method. Normally used in menu method scripts as #! /usr/bin/install-menu. OPTIONS
-h,--help Show the help message and exit. --remove Remove the menu files instead of generating them. -v,--verbose Output messages about what the program is doing. COPYING
install-menu is distributed under the term of the GNU General Public License version 2, or (at your option) any later version. AUTHOR
Written by Joost Witteveen <joostje@debian.org>. Now maintained by Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>. SEE ALSO
update-menus(1), menufile(5), /usr/share/doc/menu/html Debian Project 28 November 2005 install-menu(1)
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