smenu mit Homebrew, apk, apt, Nix, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• smenu

Projektgeschichte

The official repository describes smenu as starting as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator before evolving into a versatile CLI selection tool for interactive or scripting use. Its README compares it to `sed`, but for selection rather than editing.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The README notes that some Linux distributions already package smenu and that it can be built on Unix-like systems with a functional terminfo development platform. The supplied package metadata records Homebrew, Alpine, Debian, Ubuntu, Nix, and openSUSE package names.

Wie es verwendet wird

A common pattern is command substitution: pipe text into `smenu`, let the user choose with keyboard or mouse in a scrolling terminal window, and store the result in a shell variable. The README examples select fields from `/proc` and `/etc/passwd` output.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package maintainers care because smenu depends on terminal capabilities, terminfo, UTF-8 behavior, and interactive shell ergonomics. It is a compact example of packaging a C-based CLI that must behave correctly across many terminals.

Zeitleiste

• 2018: Earliest GitHub release returned by the releases API was v0.9.11.
• 2020s: README documents distribution packaging and builds on Unix-like systems.
• 2020s: Repository presents smenu as a mature selection filter with manpage and wiki documentation.

Related projects

• The README frames smenu by analogy to classic Unix filters such as `sed`; it also depends on terminal capabilities from the terminfo ecosystem.

Quellen

• GitHub releases API for p-gen/smenu: earliest listed release v0.9.11 on 2018-01-26.
• https://github.com/p-gen/smenu README: origin statement, selection-filter description, terminal and UTF-8 behavior, build/install notes, examples.
• https://github.com/p-gen/smenu/blob/master/smenu.1: official manpage documentation.
• input source_facts.package-manager: Homebrew, Alpine, Debian, Ubuntu, Nix, and zypper package names.