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| author | Jon Gjengset <jon@thesquareplanet.com> | 2019-10-25 07:30:49 -0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-10-25 07:30:49 -0400 |
| commit | b5d89350fd443b87217b7af6d00c956012387e80 (patch) | |
| tree | 59116790379494d4276f44e1cba3f01efbfaf14d /README.md | |
| parent | Allow noninteractive icon (#4) (diff) | |
| parent | Remove now-unused fifo var from main() (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #6 from jonhoo/newline-handling
Handle newlines in params
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@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ Note that any script communicating with `mktrayicon` via the pipe **must**, for the time being, send `q` when they are done. Just removing the FIFO file will **not** cause the tray icon to be removed. +The command argument can be quoted with either `'` or `"` if you wish +it to include newlines. Other string interpolation may be added later. +Quoted strings are terminated by a matching quote at the end of a line +(ignoring whitespace). To escape a quote character at the end of a line +to continue a quoted string, prefix it with a `\`. + ## Why? Because I wanted to be able to create tray icons from bash without all the |