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# Using spmenu to parse text
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spmenu itself accepts standard input and this is a fact all scripts/programs
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written for spmenu depend on. It's a core feature of spmenu. Nearly all of
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spmenu's features require standard input to be passed. If you only want to
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return the input text, you can simply pass nothing to spmenu and a blank
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menu will open up.
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For example, `printf "Apple\nBanana\nOrange\n" | spmenu` will bring up a basic
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menu listing with three options, Apple, Banana and Orange. The one the user
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selects will be returned when (by default) Enter is pressed. You can also press
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Shift+Enter to select what you have typed in rather than the selected match.
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spmenu also has a lot of arguments you can give. `spmenu --help` or if you
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prefer, `spmenu -h` will return a full list of available arguments. This is not
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the *only* way to configure spmenu, however it's useful when you want a setting
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to be applied only to the current instance. Most options are configurable
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through arguments, but not all of them are.
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