#!/usr/bin/env bash # Use bash's pipefail option to get errors during failure in a command # pipeline. This is useful to get notified about an error from dbus-send # when used with "|tail". set -o pipefail if [ -t 0 ] # is a tty. then # rlwrap provides readline functionality for "read", which is more enhanced # than bash's "read" itself. # It can be disabled/overridden using 'AWESOME_RLWRAP= awesome-client'. if [ -z "${AWESOME_RLWRAP+x}" ]; then AWESOME_RLWRAP="$(which rlwrap 2>/dev/null)" fi if [ -n "$AWESOME_RLWRAP" ] then if [ "$A_RERUN" = "" ] then A_RERUN="no" exec "$AWESOME_RLWRAP" "$0" "$@" fi READ_ARGS="" else # No rlwrap: use bash's readline. READ_ARGS="-e" fi fi DBUS_SEND=dbus-send which ${DBUS_SEND} > /dev/null if test $? = 1 then echo "E: Unable to find" ${DBUS_SEND} exit 1 fi DBUS_PATH=/ DBUS_DEST=org.awesomewm.awful DBUS_METHOD=${DBUS_DEST}.Remote.Eval FATAL_ERRORS=1 a_dbus_send() { $DBUS_SEND --dest=$DBUS_DEST --type=method_call --print-reply \ $DBUS_PATH $DBUS_METHOD string:"$1" | tail -n +2 ret=$? if [ "$ret" != 0 ] && [ "$FATAL_ERRORS" != 0 ]; then echo "E: $DBUS_SEND failed." >&2 exit $ret fi } print_help() { echo "Usage: awesome-client [-h|--help] [command [command...]] awesome window manager remote execution awesome-client is a remote command line interface to awesome. It communicates with awesome via D-Bus, allowing remote execution of Lua code. Run without a command to enter REPL (read-eval-print-loop) mode. For examples see \`man awesome-client\`." } if [ $# -ne 0 ] then # check for command-line arguments ARGS=() for arg in "$@"; do if [ "$arg" = "-h" ] || [ "$arg" = "--help" ]; then print_help exit 0 else ARGS+=("$arg") fi done # run arguments for arg in "${ARGS[@]}"; do a_dbus_send "$arg" done elif [ -t 0 ] then FATAL_ERRORS=0 while read $READ_ARGS -p "awesome# " -r line do if [ "$line" = "" ]; then continue fi a_dbus_send "$line" done else a_dbus_send "$(cat)" fi # vim: filetype=sh:expandtab:shiftwidth=4:tabstop=8:softtabstop=4:textwidth=80