Listbox
Simple bash listbox to choose from options
Installation
Manually
git clone https://github.com/gko/listboxthen in .bashrc or .zshrc:
source ./listbox/listbox.shWith Fig
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With antigen
In your .zshrc
antigen bundle gko/listboxWith oh-my-zsh
git clone https://github.com/gko/listbox.git ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/listbox
then in your .zshrc
plugins=(
...
listbox
...
)Usage
Usage: listbox [options]
Example:
listbox -t title -o "option 1|option 2|option 3" -r resultVariable -a '>'
Options:
-h, --help help
-t, --title list title
-o, --options "option 1|option 2" listbox options
-r, --result <var> result variable
-a, --arrow <symbol> selected option symbolGeneral usage
source ./listbox.sh
listbox -t Title -o "option 1|option 2|option 3" -r result
echo "user chose: $result"output:
Title
-----
option 1
> option 2
option 3
user chose: option 2Specify arrow symbol
listbox -t Title -o "option 1|option 2|option 3" -a '→'output:
Title
---
→ option 1
option 2
option 3
option 1Pipe directly to variable
result=$(listbox -t Title -o "option 1|option 2|option 3" | tee /dev/tty | tail -n 1)
echo "user chose: $result"output:
Title
---
option 1
> option 2
option 3
user chose: option 2Like it?
License
Copyright (c) 2012-2016 Konstantin Gorodinskiy