Little file browser with pdmenu

Posted on Sat 10 March 2012 in Hacks

Pdmenu is a menu system for Unix. It is designed to be easy to use, and is suitable for a login shell for inexperienced users, or it can just be run at the command line as a handy menu program.

I just modified showdir.pl script in order to implement a small and minimal file browser for using pdmenu.

You can add/delete file and directory and edit files. Some screenshot below:

run menu

menu

this is the pdmenu configuration file:

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#! /usr/bin/pdmenu -c
#
## Version 2.0
#
## Title
preproc: echo "Title: test"
color:desktop:blue:blue
color:title:red:white
color:base:blue:white
# File manager
menu:provisioning: Provisioning file management : 
group:_Edit a file
    exec::makemenu: (\
            /usr/share/pdmenu/editdir.pl /var/www "" show_directory \
            ) 2>/dev/null
    show:::show_directory
    remove:::show_directory
endgroup
group:_Remove a file or directory
    exec::makemenu: (\
            /usr/share/pdmenu/deldir.pl /var/www "" del_directory \
            ) 2>/dev/null
    show:::del_directory
    remove:::del_directory
endgroup
group:Add a _directory
    exec::makemenu: (\
            /usr/share/pdmenu/adddir.pl /var/www "" add_directory \
            ) 2>/dev/null
    show:::add_directory
    remove:::add_directory
endgroup
group:Add a _file
    exec::makemenu: (\
            /usr/share/pdmenu/addfile.pl /var/www "" add_file \
            ) 2>/dev/null
    show:::add_file
    remove:::add_file
endgroup
nop

nop
exit:E_xit

you can download the showdir.pl script here

All files /usr/share/pdmenu/editdir.pl /usr/share/pdmenu/deldir.pl /usr/share/pdmenu/adddir.pl /usr/share/pdmenu/addfile.pl are symlink to showdir.pl

coding pdmenu perl