AWESOME-MENU(1)

NAME
awesome-menu - awesome menu system

SYNOPSIS
awesome-menu [-c config] [-e command] <title>

DESCRIPTION
awesome-menu is a tool which will pop up a menu on your screen, grabbing keyboard and allowing you to search through an initial completion list, or using your files as completion.

USAGE
By default, awesome-menu reads completion from standard input. If nothing is read, the completion list is built from the current working directory files. To build a menu with all the executable files of /usr/bin:
ls /usr/bin | awesome-menu -e 'exec ' 'Execute'
To build the same menu and run the programs in a terminal window:
ls /usr/bin | awesome-menu -e 'xterm -e exec ' 'Execute in terminal'
To build an ssh connection prompt:
cut -d' ' -f1 ~/.ssh/known_hosts | cut -d, -f1 | awesome-menu -e 'xterm -e ssh ' 'ssh to:'
If you do not specify the -e option, the result will be sent to standard output. You can do things like that:
gzip "$(awesome-menu '"File to gzip')"

OPTIONS

-c config
    Use an alternate configuration file instead of $HOME/.awesomerc.

-e command
    Command to execute. The result is appended to the end of this command (like xargs).

<title>
    Print this title. This is also used to identify the menu section in the awesomerc file.

SEE ALSO
awesome(1) awesomerc(5)

AUTHORS
Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info: mailto:julien@danjou.info>

WWW
http://awesome.naquadah.org: http://awesome.naquadah.org