prompters

A collection, growing, of shell scripts to guide/prompt the use of various shell commands.

Note that the names of the tools are subject to change if anyone has a better name for them

This project was started out of my frustration at (a) finding the right shell command and then (b) using it. For years (decades actually) I've developed ISPF menus and dialogs that help users to find and use MVS, OS/390, and z/OS applications.

Overview

These prompters are shell scripts that use the gum tool for display and prompting.

See https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum for particulars about gum.

The z/OS port of gum can be found here https://github.com/ZOSOpenTools.

caveat These are some of my first shell scripts so bear with me - contributors are welcome to assist/improve.

Notes:

1. The use of more or less are also valid pagers, but the gum pager is the preferred viewer.
2. These are work in progress - improvements welcome.

dsfs-menu

This prompter will prompt for one of the dsadm commands used with dsfs on z/OS. It will then prompt for the various options allowed and then invoke the command.

mantastic

This tool will prompt for a string (i.e. ssh) and will display a selection list of all man pages with the string in the page description.

It may be invoked one of two ways:

mantastic will prompt for the string

mantastic string will bypass the prompt and immediately present the selection list.

zotinstall

This tool demonstrates constructing a zopen install command by prompting for the packages to install and then perform a mandb if enabled.

zotremove

The reverse of zopen_install to remove packages.

tspin

This is a demonstation script to show the various gum spin spinner options.