Directory lister

Now a more complicated script. This script can be used to navigate a directory hierarchy. It puts all the files in the current directory into a list. When you choose a file it does one of two things. If the file is a directory, it goes to that directory and reruns the program to produce a new listing panel. If the file is a regular file it performs the Unix command specified in the dialog. Note that the rules governing newlines within an action allow us to embed a complete multiline shell script within an action. The resulting panel is shown in figure .

button={ label=DONE action=QUIT }

hbox={
message={ value="Directory:" }
message={ value=`pwd` }
}

dialog={ name=command label="Command for files" value="xterm -e vi" }

list={ name=name label="NAMES" 
  action=" if test -d $val 
           then 
               cd $val  
              xtpanel -file examples/script/lister &
           else 
              $command $val & 
           fi" 
  itemlist={ list=`echo -n .* * ` separator=" " }
}

 

lister Figure 7 A panel to traverse a Unix filesystem.