NAME¶

ascommand - send commands to AfterStep

SYNOPSIS¶

ascommand [-f file] [-h] [-i] [-v] [-w id] [--] [command]

DESCRIPTION¶

This manual page documents briefly the ascommand command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

ascommand is a program, which sends commands to the AfterStep Window Manager.

OPTIONS¶

-f --file

input commands from file (- means stdin)

-h --help

this help

-i --interactive starts interactive communication with AfterStep

-v --version

print version information

-w --window-id

window id to send to AfterStep (in hex)

--

end parsing of command line options

command

command to send to AfterStep

If -f - or -i is specified, ascommand will read commands from standard input, and print results on standard output. -i is noisier than -f -.

SEE ALSO¶

afterstep(1x).

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written by Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>, using help2man(1) program, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).