Release 1.1 of xpick
xpick is an X11 Athena Widget implementation of pick, from "The Unix
Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike. It displays its
arguments in a window, lets you select any of them with the mouse
and/or shell style pattern, then outputs the selected ones (on standard
output) and exits when a command button is hit.
To build xpick say:
xmkmf
make depend
make
then
XFILESEARCHPATH=Xpick.ad ./xpick *
or
(setenv XFILESEARCHPATH Xpick.ad; ./xpick *)
to try it out, and if you're happy with it:
make install
I've included a shell script 'xapply' to show how you can use xpick as
a "wrapper" around Unix commands. xapply applies an arbitrary command
to files in the current directory selected via xpick.
xpick was developed on a Sun-4, SunOS 4.1.1
and has also been built & run on
Encore Multimax Umax 4.3 X11R5
DEC microVax Ultrix V2.2-1 X11R5
Apple A/UX X11R5
Thanks to Brian Totty <totty@cs.uiuc.edu> for the Free Widget
Foundation Multilist widget (a version of which I have hacked
slightly), and Byron Rakitzis <byron@archone.tamu.edu> for the pattern
matching code from his wonderful rc shell.
Gerry Tomlinson, June 1993
(gerry.tomlinson@newcastle.ac.uk)
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