ASCOMMAND(1x)

💅 ASCOMMAND — the AfterStep whisperer

okay bestie, gather round, because ascommand is literally the girl who carries your messages to the AfterStep Window Manager. no cap. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page is the quick lil rundown of the ascommand command. and real talk? it was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. like, at all. not me having to write the whole thing myself 😭

ascommand is a program — a whole main character — that sends commands to the AfterStep Window Manager. that's it. that's the vibe. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -f, --file — input commands from a file (- means stdin, as in, read it off standard input bestie)
• -h, --help — this help. the girl explains herself 💖
• -i, --interactive — starts interactive communication with AfterStep. it's giving conversation. it's giving dialogue. 🗣️
• -v, --version — print version information
• -w, --window-id — window id to send to AfterStep, and it's in hex so don't come at me with decimals 💀
• -- — end parsing of command line options. everything after this is just vibes (and arguments)
• command — the command to send to AfterStep

🫶 heads up: if -f - or -i is specified, ascommand will read commands from standard input, and print results on standard output. and just so you know — -i is noisier than -f -. she's chatty. she has things to say. 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• afterstep(1x) — go read that one too, it's iconic

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>, using the help2man(1) program, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). shoutout Robert, absolute legend, carried the whole documentation situation on his back 🫡✨

and that's the whole page babes — this one's dated May 28th, 2006, from the ASCOMMAND(1x) manual, so yeah she's vintage but she still ate 💅🎀 no cap, fr fr. 🦋