Terminal script?

EonSlack · 11-23-2010, 12:45 AM

Using slackware 13.1 and customizing my Fluxbox menu...

Essentially i have two points, work and home, that i connect to the internet with so i have within my menu this code

Code:

[submenu] (connect to) {pick your poison...}
    [exec] (home) {iwconfig eth1 ESSID "home"}
    [exec] (work) {iwconfig eth1 ESSID "work"}
    [exec] (list!)

but sometimes i go on the road!
Essentially i want to make a command that will open a terminal and display available networks in the area if im not at home or at work...
but i dont know how to go about doing so, done some googling and found a code line that looked like something i wanted

Code:

gnome-terminal -x bash -c "ls; cat"

sadly i dont have gnome-terminal

So how would i execute this in rxvt? or another slack terminal.

(second thought here: I want to make it a condensed list, about 2-3 networks tops being displayed, what are the variables i would play with, within the opening of the terminal?_)

Nylex · 11-23-2010, 01:41 AM

Use the man page for whichever terminal you use to find the option to run a command. For xterm, it's the -e option. Really, though, why aren't you using Wicd?

catkin · 11-23-2010, 02:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nylex

Really, though, why aren't you using Wicd?

+1 to that

linus72 · 11-23-2010, 06:22 AM

urxvt -e bash -c "ls; cat"

coralfang · 11-23-2010, 06:40 AM

You could always use `dialog', this is what i would do;

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# our network locations
NET1="home"
NET2="work"

# interface to use; pass as an argument
IFACE=$1

# temp file to hold selection number
TMPFILE=/tmp/netdialog.$$

# show menu with network locations and send stdout to a file
dialog --stdout --backtitle "Network Settings" \
  --radiolist "Select Location:" 10 30 2 \
        1 ${NET1} off \
        2 ${NET2} off > ${TMPFILE}

# read selection into a var
ITEM=$(<${TMPFILE})

# don't need this anymore
rm ${TMPFILE}

function connect {
        # run the command to connect
        /sbin/iwconfig ${IFACE} ESSID "$1";

        # check for last exit status, then display what happened
        [ $? != 0 ] && dialog --infobox "Error!" 3 15 || \
                       dialog --infobox "Success!" 3 15
}

# decide which option we selected
case ${ITEM} in
        1)
        connect ${NET1};;
        2)
        connect ${NET2};;
esac

Run it with your interface as an argument, "./blah.sh eth1" for example
It should show you a menu in your terminal to select a network/location and then pass it to `iwconfig' so you can connect.

I'm no bash expert by the way, so this could be utterly pointless... but hey it does work