NAME

Menu.pl - example shell plugin

DESCRIPTION

This is a full featured plugin that adds a builtin to generate menus and a word expansion to substitute choices from these menus in your next commandlines.

For example:

        zoid$ menu_list -c "ls -F"
        1) Artistic
        2) BUGS
          ...
        zoid$ cat =2
        zoid$ menu_list -c (find . | grep Zoidberg)
        1) lib/Zoidberg/
          ...
        zoid$ cd =1
        zoid$ menu_list -s foo bar
        1) bar
        2) foo

An more advanced example, this builts a menu with all dircetories in the current directory, in the dirstack and in the CDPATH environment variable:

        zoid$ alias d='menu_list -s -c "ls -F | grep /$" -c "dirs" @CDPATH'
        zoid$ d
        1) lib/
        2) blib/
        3) bin/
          ...
        zoid$ cd =2

COMMANDS

menu_list [[-s] items ..|-c command]

Builts a menu out of the specified items or the output of command. You can mix multiple commands and items. Without arguments list the items in the current menu. The '-s' (or '--sort') option forces alphabethical sorting of the menu.

AUTHOR

Jaap Karssenberg, <pardus@cpan.org>