From 54a2e99c7b86cafa5ad350171f021589ef2a80df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Schmidinger Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 16:38:41 +0100 Subject: Implemented 'Commands' menu --- FORMATS | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) (limited to 'FORMATS') diff --git a/FORMATS b/FORMATS index a86cfd2c..3eee494f 100644 --- a/FORMATS +++ b/FORMATS @@ -66,3 +66,27 @@ Video Disk Recorder File Formats See the MANUAL file for a description of the available options. +* commands.conf + + This file contains the definitions of commands that can be executed from + the "Main" menus "Commands" option. + + Each line contains one command definition in the following format: + + title : command + + where 'title' is the string the will be displayed in the "Commands" menu, + and 'command' is the actual command string that will be executed when this + option is selected. The delimiting ':' may be surrounded by any number of + white space characters. + + In order to avoid error messages to stderr, every command should have + stderr redirected to stdout. Everything the command prints to stdout will + be displayed in a result window, with 'title' as its title. + + Examples: + + Check for new mail: /usr/local/bin/checkmail 2>&1 + CPU status : /usr/loval/bin/cpustatus 2>&1 + Disk space : df -h | grep '/video' | awk '{ print 100 - $5 "% free"; }' + -- cgit v1.2.3