umenu

micro-menu or unnamed menu

Inspired by dmenu and slmenu, but designed around single-keypress interaction. It maps each line of stdin (up to a maximum of 35 by default) to a key and outputs the selected line to stdout. Useful for repetitive user-input tasks like categorising training data or or organising media into directories.

Installation

run make install from the source directory (with root if neccesary) no dependencies should be required

Example usage

Navigate to a subdirectory:

cd `ls */ | umenu`

Navigate up and down directories

while CWD=`ls -al | awk '/^d/ {print $NF}' | umenu`; do
  echo
  cd $CWD
done

Move all PNGs one-by-one to some subdirectory, or to trash

mkdir trash
for PNG in `ls *.png`; do
  echo $PNG
  mv $PNG `ls -d */ | umenu`
done
trash-put trash